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The OpenDocument Format (ODF) just keeps on getting stronger. It is now an officialISO standard; there are numerousapplications that support it, with varying degrees of fidelity, including Google's onlineword processor and spreadsheet; there's an official Microsoft-fundedplug-in for Microsoft Office that allows it to open and save ODF files, and aprogram that converts between ODF and the Chinese UOF XML office format; and the ODF community has largely sorted out issues ofaccessibility that threatened to de-rail its adoption by Massachusetts.

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