Microsoft Office is being chucked out of the UK government!
Or so The Guardian newspaper would have us believe in a Press Association story this morning that claims that the UK government will oust Microsoft Office and replace it with open source alternatives.
The article – a preview piece for the Sprint 14 UK government digital event that I attended earlier today – quotes Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude as wanting to roll out software which can produce open-source files in the ‘open document format’ (ODF), such as OpenOffice and Google Docs.