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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...
- Blog posts 2006-07-05
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- 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...
- 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). ...
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- 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? ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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: ...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2005-09-06
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