ODF (open office) is ISO Approved

The new Open Office format for writing documents has now been approved by the ISO standards organisation, which is very good news. This now means that we can free ourselves from oppressive and freedom damaging proprietary formats, thus ensuring that the documents created in this format will be readable by everyone, anywhere, anytime and by any system designed to with proper standards. No more restrictions on a particular vendor to read the documents.

This means i can finally stop accepting documents sent by the Horible MS Office formats.

Its time we entered a world where computing is about usage and sharing data amongst everyone, and the right to exchange data is not restricted to a single vendor.

some related links...
OpenOffice
ODF Alliance