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October 17, 2005 CCIA President Ed Black explains why he thinks Massachusetts has set an example other governments will follow. TAGS: Massachusetts, OpenDocument Format, citizen, state, interoperability, government, decision

September 23, 2005 State finalizes policy calling for desktop applications supporting OpenDocument standard format. Microsoft Office is excluded. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Massachusetts, state, policy, Microsoft Office, decision, Microsoft Corp., agency, IBM Corp.

July 5, 2006 State is sticking to its plan to standardize on OpenDocument, says the incoming CIO, describing the move as irreversible. TAGS: Louis Gutierrez, OpenDocument Format, Massachusetts, CIO, Stephen O'Grady, state, open standard, information technology, decision, IBM Corp., format, open source, Microsoft Corp.

November 1, 2005 Records supervisor, state senators probe Massachusetts' decision to standardize office applications on the document format. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Peter Quinn, supervisor, Massachusetts, information technology, decision, senator, policy, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

December 14, 2005 State senators air the issues around its decision to use OpenDocument as the default desktop application format. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Massachusetts, productivity-application, OASIS, forum, standards, senator, Microsoft Office, state, IBM Corp., standard, decision, XML, vice president, Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology

November 28, 2005 After picking OpenDocument as a standard, commonwealth is "optimistic" that standardized Office formats will pass muster. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, state, Office 12, Microsoft Office, procurement, standards, Governor, XML, standard, format, office, Microsoft Corp., agency, decision

November 3, 2005 Senate bill proposes creation of task force to approve state technical policy, calling into question OpenDocument decision. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, electronic record, Massachusetts, information technology, policy, decision, bill, standards, agency, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office

November 5, 2003 A federal court considers whether a trial judge's order ending Microsoft's antitrust case should be tossed out in favor of harsher remedies. TAGS: Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, antitrust, remedy, Massachusetts, appeals court, compliance, settlement, court, decision, favor, Judge, trial, Microsoft Corp., software company, Microsoft Windows

March 28, 2006 Yes, says former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn. To be taken seriously, open-source community needs to dress the part. TAGS: Peter Quinn, OpenDocument Format, open source, open-source community, adoption, open-source software, CIO, Massachusetts, government, Linux, decision, information technology, Microsoft Corp., U.S.

December 5, 2005 Mannheim, Germany, says its switch to Linux apps won't be fast or cheap--but that's just fine. TAGS: migration, OpenDocument Format, OpenOffice, euro, city, productivity-application, IT infrastructure, department, open source, open standard, Linux, Massachusetts, information technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, manager, decision

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