Open Document will still reign as the standard of the state of Massachusetts, according to this eWeek piece. Apparently Microsoft didn’t have the sway to flat out bully the state into eating it’s Office products.

While it hasn’t already happened, which would make me a whole lot less skeptical of the outcome, there has been quite a lot of muscle leveraged. All of the media attention and the spotlight of public scrutiny may be barring Microsoft from doing their usual backroom politicing to get rid of opposition to their dominance.