http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/09/massachusetts_a.php Massachusetts's Information Technology Division has released Microsoft's formal 15-page reply to the state's controversial draft policy on information standards. That policy would mandate that the Open Document Format be used for all "office" documents (ie, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation documents). Because OpenDocument is incompatible with Microsoft's Office applications, the Massachusetts policy would effectively require state agencies to abandon Microsoft Office. The state has also published various other comments it has received from companies, including... en-us http://www.giftbasketsbyrochelle.com/adipex.htm buy viagra adipex snort clonazepam buy oxycotin online prescription drug identification lexapro ...]]> http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000991.html For all the passion stirred up by the debate for (Bray, Carr, Ruby, Walli) and against (Asay, Coursey) the State of Massachusetts' selection of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard, that battle is now over (at least... http://weblog.ipcentral.info/archives/2005/09/more_on_ma_1.html Nicholas Carr (HBS), Jonathan Schwartz (Sun), and David Berlind (Znet) have all endorsed the Massachusetts draft policy on open data. (Microsoft’s comments are here. Links to those by PFF, ACT, and IPI are here. More PFF thoughts are here.) Leaving... http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=7 Massachusetts has decided to phase out Microsoft Office in favor of applications based on open standards, including the OpenDocument standard used by OpenOffice.org and other Open Source applications. ... http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/09/microsoft_massa.html Updated (19-Sep-2005, 15:00 PDT): Started collecting blogs and news at the end in a further links section, starting with Nicolas Carr's post. The discussion is certainly heating up around the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' decision to move to the Open ... http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000977.html Having just returned from a week on the road, I'm headed back out again tonight. The basic schedule, for those of you who might have a need to get a hold of me, is a late night flight to Chicago...