Double-plus open Microsoft
March 13, 2008 (Thursday) | Microsoft
Earlier today Microsoft announced with great fanfare the start of a more open attitude. They have defined a set of principles around interoperability, open connections, standards and data portability. And they'll be publishing detailed specs on the company's APIs, protocols and file formats to provide greater transparency and support for industry standards and open source. This is good news. If Microsoft claimed to be open before, I guess they are now even more so. (You could say, they are double-plus open.) Microsoft will be releasing 30,000 pages of API and protocol documentation for Windows, Office, Exchange Server, SharePoint and SQL...
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