Re:What's with the ranting? (Score 1)

Simply send a reply email to said idiot and ask that they re-send the document in another format (rtf, pdf, plain text). Lots of us have been doing that for a while now. As for the MA issue, its been pointed out before that they want the OpenDocument format supported, so that won't help MS at the moment. What it will do is provide MS with a bit of fuel to argue that PDF is an alternative "open" format and should also be a qualifying alternative. Many posters here have already cited reasons why it should be (doubt that they meant to), even mirroring arguments made in a recent Groklaw rebuttle to the Fox News editorial. Yes, MS will be able to charge lots of money for upgrades, but to a governement body inside the US, thats not as big a deal to the decision makers as us taxpayers would like it to be.