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"The decision taken has been deliberated carefully for a considerable amount of time, and much thought process has been put into it," Nor Aliah Mohd. Zahri, ICT deputy director general at MAMPU, said in a statement.

"These discussions centered on open formats, particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative 'openness' of the format options available to us," Nor Aliah explained."

This is a clear decision of choice of ODF over OOXML!

What MAMPU (Malaysian Administration Modernization and Management Planning Unit) has done is to issue a tender to conduct a study to create road maps to implement open standards in general and ODF in particular in the whole of the Malaysian public sector.

This announcement indeed signals Malaysia's commitment to ODF and open standards.