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- Massachusetts moves ahead sans Microsoft
- Massachusetts moves ahead sans MicrosoftThis iniative can't start soon enoughI'll bet Microsoft expends more energy trying to kill this cute little number more than it does trying to fend off Google. IMO, this represents 10 times a greater threat than anything Google can throw at the big Mickey. Open office...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., democracy, Kriss, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2005-09-23
- Should more public agencies heed Massachusetts' OpenDoc policy?
- Should more public agencies heed Massachusetts' OpenDoc policy?Credit where credit is dueI think you'll find that every point Mr. Kriss made was made, quite elegantly, several years earlier by [url="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//www.opensource.org/docs/peru_and_ms.php&ei=5BgeQ4e2IMmsYcSI0KwM"]DR. EDGAR DAVID VILLANUEVA NUŅEZ[/url]I'm told by native Spanish speakers, by the way, that the original is an utter marvel of...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, OPEN SOURCE, agency, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Kriss, OpenOffice, OpenDoc
- Discussion threads 2005-09-06
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- Word Power (exe)
- Create crossword puzzles and 14 more educational word games from your vocabulary words and definitions. Automatic generation of vocabulary bingo cards, word searches, crossword puzzles, magic number squares, flash cards, matching and multiple choice quizzes, juggle words, crytplists, fill-in-the-blank quizzes, and kriss-kross activiites. Create sudoku puzzles. Includes English spell checker.Version...
- Tags: Vocabulary, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Games, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-12-05
- Massachusetts CIO quits
- Massachusetts CIO quitsWhat else is newLack of funds that is.Once again...The bureaucrats run a competent person out of office because they don't adhere to the "acceptable politics" of the situation. There are budget shortfalls and going to open source could have saved MA alot of money...yet the politicos refuse...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Microsoft Corp., Abramoff
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- 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
- Why Massachusetts' Peter Quinn quit
- In this interview with Peter Quinn, the former CIO of Mass., who led the effort to adopt ODF and cut Microsoft Office, Groklaw asks what forced him out and what Microsoft had to do with it. Here's the top of the interview: PJ: What was the last straw that made...
- Tags: Was it Pacheco, information technology, Peter Quinn
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- OpenDocument News: Wordperfect ships sans ODF, ex-MA CIO interviewed
- There's a little bit of news on the OpenDocument Format ODF front. According to eWeek, a new version of Wordperfect has shipped but without ODF support (despite the company's prior statements that it's behind the XML-based productivity suite document format). ...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- Peter Quinn's resignation
- Peter Quinn, the Massachusetts State CIO who led the charge to make public documents in Massachusetts truly open with ODF announced that he will resign on Jan 9th. In an interview with Groklaw, Quinn's former boss, Eric Kriss said that Quinn was uncomfortable with the personal attention surrounding...
- Tags: Peter Quinn
- Blog posts 2006-01-02
- Microsoft: We were railroaded in Massachusetts on ODF
- Microsoft: We were railroaded in Massachusetts on ODFDeja vue all over againMicrosoft spent two years prior to the year with Massachusetts going through these exact same arguments with the European Union TAC commission. It was the same thing, with the EU/TAC setting their test for “openness”, and Microsoft arguing...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2005-10-14
- The Dan & David Show: Massachusetts vs. Microsoft
- The Dan & David Show: Massachusetts vs. MicrosoftWho lost what?Last time I checked, MS Office was still the standard in office productivity software. Think this will change because some soon to be unemployed bureaucrats in MA had a hissy fit over "open" standards? Let's check back in 5 years and...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2005-10-14
- 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
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