Microsoft Publicly Posts Additional Protocol Doc

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Microsoft will have posted a cumulative total of more than 44,000 pages of protocol documentation that it committed in its interoperability principles.

Microsoft Corp. took another step toward fulfilling its interoperability principle of ensuring open connections to its high-volume products and driving greater interoperability, opportunity and choice across the IT community of developers, partners, customers and competitors.

Microsoft posted on MSDN more than 14,000 pages of preliminary versions of technical documentation for Microsoft protocols built into Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. With this action, Microsoft will have posted a cumulative total of more than 44,000 pages of protocol documentation that it committed in its interoperability principles.

As a result of today's posting, all types of developers including independent software vendors, open source developers and developers in customer IT departments will have consistent, open access to this protocol documentation that defines how these high-volume Microsoft products communicate with other

Microsoft products. This consistent, open access to information will promote more interoperability options for developers of all types and will help foster improved real-world interoperability solutions in the marketplace.

"Microsoft is pleased to announce today another step toward putting our interoperability principles into action with the public availability of these protocol specifications for Microsoft Office, Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Exchange Server," said Tom Robertson, general manager of Interoperability and Standards at Microsoft. "We believe that providing open, consistent access to these protocols will further unleash the creativity of all developers to work on real-world interoperability solutions. The implementation of Microsoft's interoperability principles is an important component of our overall efforts to promote interoperability in the marketplace."

In another example, developers working with Exchange Server protocols will have addition