MS Standardizes Shared Source Exec

Jason Matusow has headed up Redmond's Shared Source initiative for the past five years, but now Microsoft has tasked him with a more important job: evangelizing its embrace of open standards. Matusow announced in his blog that he has taken a new role as Director in the Corporate Standards Strategy Team.

Although Matusow didn't detail what he would do in the position, it's likely the shared source veteran will help with Microsoft's new open standards efforts in Office 12. "I'll still be opining about OSS, particularly as it is so closely related to what I am going to be doing in the standards space," Matusow assured. Microsoft Linux Lab head Bill Hilf will take over as "the Shared Source guy."