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Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory
(blog.documentfoundation.org)
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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I understood this as meaning that the file format must be supported by all government institutions. And it probably is supported. Up to a point. Because Microslop has a very bad-quality odf support in Word. Meaning: The support exists. It might not be able to read or save simple odf files that could be opened with anything else than Word, but the support exists all the same. Law fulfilled, all is good!