UK government adopts ODF as standard document format

ColinWright · on July 24, 2014

A few comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070324

Points, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071936

Points, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8073723

Discussion of when the Australian government made the same decision:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5784968

Tsiolkovsky · on July 24, 2014

What the UK Government’s adoption of ODF really means → http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/07/24/uk-odf/

keithpeter · on July 24, 2014

The blog post linked to by parent leads to this page

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-fo...

As OA mentions, this changeover will take some time. I think they are serious about it though.

jaweegian · on July 24, 2014

I wonder if this has been made possible by the improved support for ODF in Office 2013. I generally find it to be very good. Much better, at least, than LibreOffice 4 supports Office Open XML.