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Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 | 9:31 a.m.
In a plan laid out on the government's Web site, Massachusetts Chief Information Officer Peter Quinn said all agencies must make the switch away from Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's Word and Excel programs because those programs are "proprietary" and prevent some users from reading documents.
The decision by Massachusetts, after spending almost two years considering a switch, is a blow for Microsoft, the world's largest software maker.
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