We reported last January that Massachusets proposed to move all documents produced by the State and any local governments within it to formats conforming to open standards. At the time there was a lot of thought that Microsoft and other vendors would oppose this.
While opposition did arise, Massachusetts stuck to their guns and after repeated rounds of public comment, has implemented their plan. Conversion is to be complete by 1 January, 2007. This specification is open for a last round of public comment now and is expected to be implemented in it's current form, with the planned timing.
Application vendors who do not currently support the required formats are expected to offer plug-ins or other revisions to their products to comply. Microsoft is rumored to already have the required changes made in recent versions of Office ready to go.
Jack
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