Microsoft Goes Open Source?
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Ntas in Microsoft, Software |
Microsoft is to embrace the open source society after announcing that it is going to make published 30000 pages of Windows documentation available to all developers that might be wanting to make software products that work with Windows. In the past the documentation was only available to a select few under a trade secret license.
This move is designed to improve interoperability of Microsoft products and those by other developers so that they can work properly. In the past it has been difficult by developers to make applications or extensions that were 100% compatible with Windows products. But this announcement has made some spectators skeptical given Microsoft’s past, that they really want to work with the open source community or they are just trying to fend off the European Union regulators. I hope not.
Although they are not exactly making Windows open source lets give the big guy another chance. It might be one of many better things to come out of Redmond this year.
2008-04-06 05:00:25
good news for small developers and developers who don’t have money to buy these documents before all these things
thanks for information