The Boston Globe reported on Saturday, in an article by Stephen Kurkjian, that Peter Quinn, the Commonwealth’s CIO, did not violate any rules by going to 12 tech conferences over the past year. The trips, it turns out, were all approved by his boss, and the reimubrsements he got for travel expenses were all legit.

The charges came as the controversy grew over Quinn’s decision that the Commonwealth will only buy office software that supports open document standards, a policy that has apparently driven Microsoft apeshit.

It does make you wonder where the Massachusetts government got the wrong information that prompted the false accusations and the article in the first place. Did the Romney administration fall for a Microsoft smear? I’ve sent Stephen Kurkjian an email, asking. [Tags: BostonGlobe microsoft PeterQuinn massachusetts opendoc]

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