The Boston Globe: Microsoft Moves to Head Off State Woes

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"Microsoft Corp. today will ask an international body to certify its new computer file format as an international standard for reading and storing documents, a move it hopes will keep its ubiquitous Office software from being removed from thousands of computers in Massachusetts government.

"The Romney administration is pressing forward with a plan to have millions of digital documents and other public records stored in a different format, called OpenDocument, by January 2007...."

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