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Australian Govt standardises on PDF for all documents, moving away from Microsoft’s rival format

Remember how the Australian Government caused a bit of a kerfuffle a while back for choosing to standardise on on Microsoft’s proprietary office document file format? Well, this week the decision has been reversed, with all of the country’s federal departments and agencies to use the more widely supported Open Document Format from now on. Score one for open standards.

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