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Massachusetts Finalizes Switch to OpenDocument
Sep 27, 2005, News Report
"State agencies in the executive branch are now supposed to migrate to OpenDocument-compliant applications by Jan. 1, 2007, a change that will affect about 50,000 desktop PCs." CNet
The state's FAQs say, "...use of existing MS Office licenses is allowed as long as agencies use a method permitting the saving of documents in Open Document Format."
"The Executive Department's migration to the Open Document Format standard will not be a trivial task. During the public review period, commentators raised a number of implementation issues, all of which will be carefully considered by ITD during its joint implementation planning with the Executive Department agencies." FAQs
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