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Galvin attacks software proposal

He says he'll forgo data-storage shift

By Hiawatha Bray
Globe Staff / October 25, 2005

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Secretary of State William F. Galvin's office said it is opposed to the Romney administration's plan to store state documents in an ''open" format, a plan that roused the ire of Microsoft Corp. , maker of the popular Office suite of word processing, e-mail, presentation, and spreadsheet software. (Full article: 582 words)

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