Not only that, but it’ll cost more than it does to buy Office for every worker, on his office machine and at home! At full retail price! Why? Because lawyers are expensive. I can almost guarantee that more money is going to go into lawyer fees over these trumped up law suits and people “talking” and “discussing” this issue then will ever go toward “migrating” people to something like OOo. This has to do with the Government seeking technology which does not discriminate on any basis: Yes, open standards don’t discriminate anyone can implement them! And that means, any user can use them! No purchase required. I’m really sick of people acting like this has anything to do with people being “anti-Microsoft.” This has to do with Microsoft not listening to its customers. And in this situation, it makes no sense not to! Afraid your graphics might fall out of line a centimeter on that old 8×11.73″ printer? Who cares! You’re saving in a format for which there’s a printed, documented method of reading and interpretting it! And not only that, but you can write code to do that if you so choose without concern for legal action! The Government, of all organizations in the world, needs to be using standard formats when it makes any sense at all. And, instead of petitioning Microsoft to implement the format, they’re yelling at the Government to not require the use of standard formats. Their plan seems to have accounted for all problems, including those who physically need Microsoft Office. Not that they’ve stated a good reason not to it’d be a weeks work for some excellent engineers on each team. And then Microsoft refused to implement a standard file format within their Office Suite. But this is still aimed at the people who are actually questioning the move to OASIS: Note: It seems I’ve misjudged the parents complaint.