Microsoft Takes Interoperability Seriously: Collaboration Just as Important as Open Standards
Microsoft and interoperability, these have not always gone hand in hand. But the software giant have evolved significantly in recent years. And that was vital too, in a market in which there is an ever increasing demand for openness and interoperability. We had an open talk with two interoperability specialists from Microsoft: Craig Shank and Jean Paoli.

Imagine Cup Egypt 2009
Open to students around the world, the Imagine Cup is a serious challenge that draws serious talent, and the competition is intense. The contest spans a year, beginning with local, regional and online contests whose winners go on to attend the global finals held in a different location every year. The intensity of the work brings students together, and motivates the competitors to give it their all. The bonds formed here often last well beyond the competition itself.

Open Source Initiative Provides Choice and Interoperability for Developers
Microsoft demonstrates its commitment to openness and interoperability by collaborating with Soyatec on eclipse4SL, an open-source, cross-platform plug-in for the Eclipse development environment designed to enable Eclipse developers to build Silverlight Rich Internet Applications on both Windows and Mac platforms.

Microsoft Donates Code to Apache Stonehenge Project
Microsoft makes its first code contribution to an Apache project made up of companies and developers seeking to test the interoperability of Web standards implementations.

Integrate Your IT Environment
Enhance your heterogeneous IT infrastructure with this TechNet Event. Learn how to authenticate and manage non-Windows operating systems, run OSS on Windows Server 2008, and maximize SQL Server’s new features for PHP sites.

Aqua Connect Uses Microsoft Open Protocols to Build Successful Mac Terminal Server
Learn how a leading provider of Macintosh terminal server software solves a growing business problem and decreases solution deployment time by implementing the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

Interoperability Executive Customer Council
Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, explains how collaboration with the IEC Council is solving the interoperability issues that matter most to customers and helping gain new ground in interoperability.

Document Interoperability Initiative
Industry leaders partner to improve interoperability between document formats at the seventh DII event in Brussels, Belgium, and Microsoft announces technical solutions to meet the real-world needs of organizations and customers.

Announcing the Release of Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta and Windows Web Application Gallery
Available now is the new Windows Web Application Gallery that includes popular community .NET and PHP applications ready for download and use. Also announced is the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta that installs the free Microsoft Web Platform and now also installs the community version of PHP 5.2.9. Get it TODAY!

Microsoft Releases OpenXML Implementation Notes
Microsoft has published its OpenXML notes for Office 2007 as part of its commitment to further promote transparency and interoperability among office productivity applications.

Microsoft and Novell Build Bridges
Customer demand grows as Microsoft and Novell continue to build on their long-term commitment to deliver interoperability and IP peace of mind for organizations running mixed-source IT environments.

Microsoft Collaborates with Leading Software Vendors to Develop CMIS Standard
Microsoft, EMC and IBM have developed a CMIS solution to enable communication and interoperability across multi-vendor, multi-data enterprise content management systems.

Microsoft Hosts its Seventh
Document Interop Initiative
Collaborative two-day workshop in Brussels, Belgium brings together customers, vendors, and members of the open source community to share information to enable document format interoperability.

India’s Team SKAN Wins Interoperability Achievement Award
India takes home the gold to win Microsoft’s 2008 Imagine Cup with a software design that helps the planet by optimizing power usage for Windows and Linux PC networks.

Portugal Creates Interoperability Framework
A division of the Portuguese government uses Microsoft technologies to reduce information processing time, lower costs, and enhance citizen data security.

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