State of Massachusetts Abandons MS Office for Open Source

Ultima Designs · 09-01-2005, 10:39 PM

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Massachusetts government officials on Thursday unveiled plans to phase out Microsoft Office in favor of office productivity suites that support an open-document format from the OASIS standards body, according to a statement from the commonwealth.

Massachusetts will support the newly ratified Open Document Format for Office Applications, or OpenDocument, as the standard for its office documents, according to the statement posted on the governmental Web site by Peter Quinn, chief information officer for Massachusetts. Developed within Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), OpenDocument is an XML (Extensible Markup Language)-based file format that covers the features required by text, spreadsheets, charts, and graphical documents.

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silverx2 · 09-01-2005, 11:01 PM

thats right we dont take crap from anybody.

argonauta · 09-01-2005, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by silverx2

thats right we dont take crap from anybody.

so...that means you make your own crap :P

lefteyewilly · 09-01-2005, 11:53 PM

You eat S*** for Breakfast?

09-01-2005, 11:01 PM	#2
silverx2 Chaos Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: The hospital Posts: 1,235	thats right we dont take crap from anybody. __________________ "I cannot stress enough how important it is for women who believe they already have large breasts to remember that they can almost always benefit from having even larger breasts," Saddler added. Please do not message me asking for flashwork to be done. i dont even know where my MX install cd is.

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09-01-2005, 11:53 PM	#4
lefteyewilly He has risen! Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,576	You eat S*** for Breakfast?