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Case studies
Microsoft Business Process Alliance Enables Mainstream Adoption of Business Process Management
Mainstream customers to benefit from end-to-end offerings.

Licensing
Standards Licensing Programs
This page lists the royalty-free (and other RAND term) licenses that Microsoft has made available in the standards context.

News
Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard
Broad industry cross-collaboration effort bears fruit; Open XML to help achieve greater interoperability and greater customer choice.

Resources
Automation Specification and Community Promise
UI Automation provides programmatic access to most user interface (UI) elements on the desktop.
Network Access Protection
Network Access Protection (NAP) is a policy enforcement platform built into Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" operating systems that allows you to better protect network assets by enforcing compliance with system health requirements.
Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Homepage
WS-I is an open industry organization chartered to promote Web services interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and programming languages.
PlaysForSure Logo Program
The PlaysForSure Logo Program is a voluntary conformance program for digital media vendors that assures consumers their digital media purchases will play back on their digital media device.
Shared Source USB WebCam Driver
This driver is built on the USB Video Standard and helps connect Webcams supporting this standard to your Windows CE device.
WPF/E (codename) Developer Center
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF/E) enables the creation of content and applications that run within multiple browsers and operating systems (Windows and Macintosh) using Web standards for programmability.
Introducing Windows CardSpace
This article introduces the set of new Windows capabilities code-named CardSpace, which provides a standards-based solution for working with and managing diverse digital identities.
Microsoft Assistive Technology Vendor Program (MATvp)
Microsoft works with technology manufacturers in the Microsoft Assistive Technology Vendor Program (MATvp) who design, build, and support assistive technology products that help individuals with difficulties and impairments successfully use computers.
Microsoft TV IPTV Edition
Microsoft TV IPTV Edition is an integrated and comprehensive software platform developed specifically to deliver broadcast-quality video and new, integrated TV services over broadband networks.
Windows Rally: Connectivity Technologies for Devices
The Windows Rally technologies provide manufacturers of network-connected devices with an architecture that enables effortless setup, more secure and manageable connectivity to other devices and computers, and rich end-user experiences.
Windows Plug and Play (PnP)
The driver architecture for Windows supports comprehensive, operating system-controlled Plug and Play including technologies defined for IEEE 1394, PCI, PC Card/CardBus, USB, SCSI, ATA, ISA, LPT, and COM.
Windows Mobile 5.0 Support for Bluetooth
Windows Mobile 5.0 supports both earlier Bluetooth profiles and the new HID profile, enabling your customers to use foldable Bluetooth keyboards and peripherals such as mouse devices, joysticks, and more with their Windows Mobile powered phones.
Windows Mobile 5.0 Support for 3G devices
Windows Mobile 5.0 provides the extensibility to add in new 3G radio interface layers, as well as other services that take advantage of high-speed wireless networks.

White papers
Windows 2000 Kerberos Interoperability
The Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system uses the Kerberos network authentication protocol to improve security and interoperability. This paper describes common scenarios for interoperability between Windows 2000 and other Kerberos implemenations.
Microsoft Strategy for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
This paper provides detailed information on how Active Directory, Microsoft's implementation of a heirarchical, extensible Directory Service, supports the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force.



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


Oct 28, 2009


Microsoft opens Outlook format, gives programs access to mail, calendar, contacts.