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Mass. switch to OpenDoc illegal, charges state Sen.

The Massachusetts state senate is pressuring Gov. Mitt Romney's administration to postpone its big switch to Open Document Format, the Boston Globe reports. Accusing former adminstration officials of cramming the changeover down employees' throats, state Sen. Marc R. Pacheco issued a committee report that found officials" did not pursue this...

Tags: Finance Secretary Eric Kriss, Secretary Eric Kriss

Blog posts 2006-07-05

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Massachusetts CIO quits amid OpenDocument debate

A key figure in efforts to move the state to the open-standards format has resigned following controversy over the initiative. Peter Quinn has resigned from his post as chief information officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to avoid further mudslinging over the state's controversial efforts to move to OpenDocument....

Tags: Peter Quinn, OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Ingrid Marson, Software

News items 2005-12-29

Microsoft: We were railroaded in Massachusetts on ODF

David Berlind: The Massachusetts OpenDocument Format decision is ground zero for the biggest battle this industry has ever seen -- a battle in which Microsoft's biggest competitors gathered to see the company defeated by a devastating weapon: Democracy. Warning. If you read any further, you...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Patent, License, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc., Massachusetts, Specification, Microsoft Corp., Peter Quinn, OpenDocument Format, Alan Yates, MA ETRM Proceeding, Sept.16, Kriss, Patent License, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Emerging Technologies, David Berlind, Software

News items 2005-10-17

Microsoft vs Mass.: What ever happened to 'The customer is always right'?

Is it just me, or is there something highly unusual about the extremely hard time that Microsoft is giving to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over its decision to move to Open Document Format ODF as the standard for storing files produced by productivity applications like word processors and spreadsheets? ...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Commonwealth of Massachusett

Blog posts 2005-09-22

Yet another MS salvo in Massachusetts battle

The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Microsoft has filed a 15-page document with the Massachusetts Information Techology Dept. and Gov. Mitt Romney objecting to the state's plan to require applications to natively support the OpenDoc format.The Globe reports: Microsoft executives...

Tags: Open, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-09-15

While Mass. takes the lead in open access, feds lock citizens into IE

David Berlind points out at Between the Lines that, while the state of Massachusett is immovably committed to the Open Document format - and will banish Microsoft Office from state agencies if Redmond refuses to support OpenDoc in new versions of Office - the federal government continues a...

Tags: OpenDoc, Microsoft Office, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Blog posts 2005-09-07

Should more public agencies heed Massachusetts' OpenDoc policy?

If there ever was a value statement from a public official regarding the reasons for moving to open standards, perhaps that statement came from Eric Kriss, Secretary of Administration & Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. According to a Computer Reseller News report written by Paula Rooney: ...

Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenDoc

Blog posts 2005-09-06

Microsoft lashes out at Massachusetts

Last week Massachusetts released proposed policies to standardize state documents on the Open Document standard used by open source programs like Open Office. The policy, which is open for public comment until Sept. 9, would essentially forbid the use of Microsoft Office applications that don't support that format. Microsoft has...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Open-Document, Open Document

Blog posts 2005-09-06