More OpenDocument Format (ODF) wins and an important reminder of people who try to harm it, sometimes while pretending to be "helping"

IBM dumps Microsoft Office; reports from ODF Workshop arrive; the Microsoft crowd still tries to capture ODF seats
IBM and Lotus

Microsoft is now saying that ODF has won; more ODF wins noted.

The first official order for the so-called "$100 laptop" has been placed by the government of Uruguay.

Listing of some new OpenDocument milestones and warning about those who try to push a stick into wheels of standards

Uruguay has joined the small number of nations providing a laptop for every child attending state primary school.

The Agency for the Development of Government Electronic Management and Information and Knowledge Society of Uruguay have now published their recommendation that public documents use either ODF or PDF. The former should be used for documents in the process of being edited and the latter for documents in final form. (To see a discussion of these document uses, see my May, 2006, blog entry.)

LATU Uruguay, the government entity testing both Intel's Classmate PC and One Laptop Per Child's XO computer has rated the XO-1 the better option for the children of Uruguay's Florida province, 56.84 points to 53.06 points.

Updates on ODF progress around the world, among developers, and in committees