<div dir="ltr">The government has confirmed plans to standardise document formats across the public sector – and has resisted extensive lobbying by Microsoft by rejecting the software giant’s preferred standard.<br><br><b><font color="#ff0000">Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude announced today that the Open Document Format (ODF) will be the standard for sharing or collaborating on government documents</font></b>, with PDF or HTML also approved for viewing documents.<div>
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<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000ff">This could also be a huge victory for the preservation and interoperability of the scholarly record if also adopted by the open scholarly communication community!!</font></b></div>
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