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Becta is therefore calling on the ICT industry to ensure that computers
for the education marketplace are delivered with a choice of Office
productivity suites available, which ideally should include an open-source
offering.

The ability for schools to exercise choice is further restricted by
interoperability difficulties and Becta is calling on Microsoft to improve
its support for the ODF interoperability standard.

There is also concern that the current lack of support for Microsoft’s
new file formats in competitor products (particularly free to
education products) may exacerbate digital divide issues. Becta
therefore advises that schools should only deploy Office 2007 when its
interoperability with alternative products is satisfactory.

http://schools.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=re&catcode=ss_res_pro_gbv_03&rid=12924

Perhaps 120 MPs signing that Early Day Motion is having an effect ;-)

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Ian