Universal Interoperability Council

But [former Massachusetts Secretary of FInance & Administration Eric] Kriss insisted that the ODF policy wasn’t intended to be anti-Microsoft. He said technical people at Microsoft told him it would be “trivial” to add support for ODF to the new Office 2007. The resistance to doing so came from the vendor’s business side, according to Kriss.

Carol Sliwa, “Inside story: How Microsoft & Massachusetts played hardball over open standards,” ComputerWorld, pg. 2 (December 4, 2006),