Peter Quinn resigns

Doing the right thing sometimes costs you a lot, in the case of Peter Quinn, it ended up being his job as CIO of Massachusetts. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has written a nice article about it:

Opinion: CIO Peter Quinn's story tells us that if you go up against Microsoft, you can expect everything and the kitchen sink to be thrown at you.

If you've followed this story, you'll know how much he's been through in the last few months and you'll quickly understand why he's choosen to resign. I have no doubt that Microsoft is at least partly to blame and it shows that they will use all means to keep their monopoly, no matter the pain they cause on others.

They could have done the right thing and added support for the OpenDocument Format to their upcomming Office 12 and I don't think they would loose their markedshare because they have a very competitive office suite (probably even the best). They have choosen to use dirty tricks instead.