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Microsoft claims that Australia will benefit from "greater choice" if local standards bodies vote this week to accept the Office Open XML format as an ISO standard.
Open standards allow the National Archives of Australia to store documents and safeguard against hardware, software and OS obsolescence.
Microsoft has come under fire yet again for keeping its Office document standards proprietary. But the software giant claims it's open enough.
The recently formed OpenDocument Format Alliance is expressing its confidence that the file format will be approved by the International Organisation for Standardisation next month.
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IT director Bob Berg tells ZDNet Australia how Western Australia's Department of Attorney-General and Corrective Services overcame complex document management for 40 separate Web sites.
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