Kiwi car club closes down open source

News comes from down under that the New Zealand AA (the Automobile Association, not Alcoholics Anonymous) has ditched OpenOffice in favour of Microsoft Office. According to the AA's CIO Doug Wilson, Microsoft's suite is not any cheaper (y'don't say) but compatibility issues and Microsoft's clear vision ("You have no idea where open-source products are going, whereas vendors like Microsoft provide a roadmap for the future") make Redmond a winner.

Fair go, but Microsoft's failure to get accreditation for its own "open" document standard was, I'm fairly certain, not on its roadmap. Let the battle continue!