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Microsoft has a long history in the cloud, dating back nearly 15 years. Today, Microsoft's commercial cloud offerings support 9,000 business customers, 40 million paid online seats, more than 500 government entities, and more than half of the Fortune 500. And we are determined to lead the transition to the cloud in an open way.
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With today's heterogeneous IT environments, businesses and governments all around the world are striving to make their systems work well together. By its very nature, interoperability requires collaboration. Microsoft recognizes that no software company working alone can provide for every customer's needs.
Microsoft works with the industry at large to meet customer needs.
We build our technologies to help customers manage today's mixed IT environments and reduce costs.
Microsoft is committed to leading the industry in the transition to the cloud.
All Stories »“Our goal is to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry by making our products more open and by sharing even more information about our technologies,” as stated by Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft.
Microsoft has changed as a company and is becoming more open in the way that we work with and collaborate with others in the industry, in how we listen to customers, and in our approach to the cloud.
We contribute to and partner with open source communities and promote interoperability to make it easier and less costly for customers to develop and manage mixed IT environments. We actively participate in the standards setting process and support established and emerging standards in our products.
In the cloud, we support key standards that provide the building blocks for open, interoperable cloud services, and we support developer choice of programming languages. We support data portability and believe customers own and control their data, no matter where it resides.
Watch this video where James Utzschneider, General Manager of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Microsoft explains how Microsoft is becoming more open.
