As Goes Denmark, So Goes Scandinavia?

Yesterday, I wrote about the government of Denmark deciding that being locked into proprietary (i.e. Microsoft) formats was not going to do. The problem was not Microsoft per se, but the locked nature of the formats. Now it looks as though Norway is on the same track, going a bit further and saying that, though it is a standard, OOXML will never do. They are deciding that ODF is the hot ticket -

[slashdot]

“Microsoft’s XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). The agency wants to start a debate over the report as part of its work on standards in the Norwegian government. (As we discussed a week ago, Denmark has already decided to choose ODF over OOXML)”

With this and the talks elsewhere in the EU about open source, it may be that soon Microsoft products won’t be seen anywhere related to the workings of government.

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