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[News] MarketWatch on Mafiasoft's Men in Black

State by state, Microsoft responds to creeping threat

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| Characteristically, as lawmakers like Homan have learned,
| Microsoft's hardly taking a passive position.
| 
| [...]
| 
| 'Microsoft sees what's coming. Things like Word and Excel 
| sort of like a drug now getting ready to go generic.'
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/state-state-microsoft-responds-assault/story.aspx?guid=%7BC0D943C4%2D4ADC%2D471C%2D8F87%2D9181A4EC3E7B%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2akafj


Related:

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| As CIO of Massachusetts from February to November last year, Louis 
| Gutierrez had to endure most of the brunt of Microsoft Corp.'s political 
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| wrath over a state policy calling for the adoption of the Open Document 
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| Format for Office Applications, or ODF -- a rival to the software vendor's 
| Office Open XML file format.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012760&source=rss_news50


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|    Quinn:  Almost to a person, to anybody involved or who knows about
|    the ODF issue, they attributed the story to Microsoft, right, wrong
|    or otherwise. Senator Pacheco may be a bully but I do not believe he
|    is disingenious and would stoop to such a tactic. Senator Pacheco and
|    Secretary Galvin's office remain very heavily influenced by the
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|    Microsoft money and its lobbyist machine, as witnessed by their
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|    playbook and words, in my opinion.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060119232859729


MA Governor-Elect Names MS Anti-ODF Lobbyist to Technology Advisory Group

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061128161343183

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