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The article mentions that Office 2010 and the move towards the software being free is changing the market. It also mentions that Google Docs played a role in that move. I wonder, did Open Office also have any sort of impact? I could be wrong, but I think that Open Office, which is open source and has always been free, does predate Google Docs by a few years and offers analogs to many of the more commonly used Office programs (Writer for Word, Calc for Excel, Impress for PowerPoint, and so on).

The NETS-A standard involved here would be the fourth standard, as it relates to the first objective, regarding leading purposeful change through appropriate use of technology.