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    David Farning

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  1. Comment - Mass. Finalizes Plan to Drop MS Office

    (Sep 25, 2005 - 7:03 PM)

    >>Um what was your point?

  2. Comment - Mass. Finalizes Plan to Drop MS Office

    (Sep 25, 2005 - 3:09 AM)

    >>"I'm sick of patching for hours, twice a month approx for every program they have"

    If you had ever used Linux you would see we have to update it weekly if not more. I am not bashing MS or Linux, just pointing out a fact.

  3. Comment - Mass. Finalizes Plan to Drop MS Office

    (Sep 24, 2005 - 6:53 PM)

    From their response I believe Microsoft cares a great deal.

  4. Comment - Mass. Finalizes Plan to Drop MS Office

    (Sep 24, 2005 - 4:24 PM)

    I will full well admit a ‘management efficiency issue’ I was working for the military at the time;)

    The main problem was caused by the need to deal with out side agencies. Some had chosen 95, some 98, and a few were starting to migrate to 2000. Thus we were left playing the middleman.

    To take a broader view of things. If I buy a automobile in 2005, I expect it to be able to park it in the same driveway as and older automobile I purchased in 2000. Or does it make sense to you that I should have to purchase two new cars or else purchase a used car to match the year of the car I am replacing?

  5. Comment - Mass. Finalizes Plan to Drop MS Office

    (Sep 24, 2005 - 4:09 PM)

    I believe that if you dig into the story a little deeper, you will find that Microsoft has added a number of encumbrances to their XML. If they(MS) would remove those encumbrances Mass would be more than willing to accept their XML as an accepted formate.