Friday, August 3, 2007

Open XML greenlighted

The commonwealth of Massachusetts has officially <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2165265,00.asp?kc=EWKNLNAV080207STR2">thrown its weight behind Microsoft's Office Open XML format</A> along with the OASIS Open Document Format.

In July, the commonwealth added Microsoft's format, also known as Ecma-376 or Open XML, to the list of approved standards in a draft of the Massachusetts ETRM (Enterprise Technical Reference Model), an architectural framework used to identify the standards, specifications and technologies that support Massachusetts' computing environment.

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