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Perhaps the headline is a bit overstated, but the news this week that Microsoft was making grants available to Massachusetts public schools and universities that would figure to be about $800 per high school student and $2,400 per university student it seems a bit suspicious. The grants would provide Microsoft's advanced software-writing and Web-building technology to students across the state. Last year there had been much chatter about abandoning any format that did not comply... more ›

Mitt Romney may have hid under his desk when his aides reported to him that the state had been slashdotted yesterday. The post on SlashDot filed a report on the Commonwealth government's possible future dumping of Microsoft Office in favor of software that would support an open document format compliant with OASIS. Bostonist has been using OpenOffice for a while now, and since our last computer didn’t come with office and dropping two bills on a CD seems a little insane, we don't blame the state for taking this route. Sure it's not the same as Microsoft, with which we've become very familliar, but it does the trick. Perhaps it'll end up keeping the state out of trouble too. The Financial Times, Forbes and the Inquirer had stories backing up the post, pointing to the Mass.gov website where documents are linked for public review of the proposal. (More in today’s Boston Globe.) more ›