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Facilitating technical collaboration

To help solve real customer interoperability challenges, Microsoft engages in open and active dialogue with customers, partners and competitors to identify pain points and develop strategies to improve interoperability.

Community Engagement

Together, Microsoft and industry partners collaborate on testing, joint development projects and technical agreements that help create or improve interoperability between systems, products and technologies.

Interoperability Executive Customer Council (IEC Council)
A group of more than 45 global public and private sector customers formed by Microsoft identifies areas for interoperability improvements across its products and the overall software industry.

Interop Vendor Alliance (IVA)
This community of 60 software and hardware vendors, including Microsoft partners and competitors, are working together to solve interoperability challenges faced by our shared customers.

Open Source Interoperability Initiative
Learn how Microsoft is facilitating bilateral engagement and supporting interoperability with the open source community through a broad range of activities and resources.

Document Interoperability Initiative
Microsoft hosts a collaborative forum of industry vendors and members of the open source community to identify and deliver solutions for customer’s critical document format interoperability scenarios.

Blogs

Brent Phillips

Brian Jones’ Open XML

Craig Kitterman

Dino Chiesa

Doug Mahugh

Interoperability@Microsoft

Oliver Bell

Port25 (Bill Hilf, Sam Ramji)

Stephen McGibbon


Forums

Using the Open Specifications

Interoperability Scenarios: Technical Questions

Office Binary File Formats

Documentation on Standards

Office Open Document Format Implementation

Windows Protocols

Using the Office Protocols

Using the Exchange Server Protocols

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Latest Blog Posts


Returning home from Malaysia
by Oliver Bell - 6/2/2009
I just completed what will be the last business trip I’ll take in my existing role in Microsoft… my new position will not be hugely different from what I’m doing now, I’ll still be involved in many o... Read More
Breaking into Public Sector markets as a small system integrator
by Oliver Bell - 5/25/2009
A little while ago I wrote a piece that talked about why I believe large system integrators often fail to meet the needs of public sector customers, exploring what it takes to build skills within the... Read More
Telecenters are starting to deliver a platform, not just a single application
by Oliver Bell - 5/25/2009
Over the last three years I have had cause to visit a number of telecenter projects around the region, some sponsored by Microsoft and some by NGOs or other multi-national companies. In many cases th... Read More
More on Microsoft Office 2007 SP2...this time from the ODF community
by Brent Philips - 5/19/2009
Just a few days ago, I wrote about the native ODF support in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2. I use it everyday with my Novell colleagues and it makes our work go very smoothly (yes, they translate our doc... Read More
Microsoft and Sun release white paper on interoperability via SAML federation standard
by Brent Philips - 5/16/2009
I'm reading this over the weekend and wanted to pass it along. Sun and Microsoft have released a white paper outlining how they are incorporating the SAML federation standard in their respective acce... Read More

News


Nov 18, 2009


GooHooSoft bear-hugs 'Apache for web specs': Open source meets open standards


Oct 29, 2009


Microsoft extends Windows 7 and Azure to open source developers


Oct 29, 2009


Microsoft partners up for open-source Azure, Silverlight tools



Collaboration

IVA Open XML Interoperability Lab
Microsoft and other IVA members and partners put Open XML to the test in real-world business scenarios.

IVA Content Management Lab
Interoperability demonstrated by Meridio, Microsoft, Open Text, SchemaLogic and Vorsite.

Document Interoperability Roundtables
Microsoft hosts worldwide interop roundtables to engage with public sector organizations and companies.

Novell and Microsoft Interoperability Website
Microsoft and Novell are fostering greater interoperability for the enterprise between Windows and Linux.

Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center
Sun and Microsoft are enhancing interoperability to maximize your business efficiency.

Microsoft|Oracle Customer Information Center
Microsoft's technologies interoperate with Oracle applications, middleware and technology.

Duet Software for Microsoft Office® and SAP®
This collaboration produces a first-of-its-kind joint software solution for Information Workers.



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