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In today’s heterogeneous computing environments and with the emergence of Web services and service-oriented architectures, interoperability has become a critical business and IT need. Microsoft is committed to solving the real-world interoperability challenges of our customers, developers, partners, and independent software providers, through innovative products, community engagement, technology access, and support for technology standards.


Content Management Information Systems

Microsoft Collaborates with Leading Software Vendors to Develop CMIS Standard

Microsoft, EMC and IBM have developed a CMIS solution which transforms the ways companies share information and manage content across distributed work environments. The proposed standard will enable communication and interoperability between multi-vendor, multi-data enterprise content management systems, increasing business flexibility and efficiency.

Featured Articles

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.

IT Professionals Government Developers
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Highlights

Microsoft Open Specification Promise

Microsoft Community Promise

Microsoft Open Protocols

Microsoft – Novell IP Covenant


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


Community

Blogs

Interop@Microsoft

Jerry Fishenden

Brent Phillips

Brian Jones’ Open XML

Craig Kitterman

Dino Chiesa

Doug Mahugh

Oliver Bell

Port25 (Bill Hilf, Sam Ramji)

Stephen McGibbon

Forums

Interoperability Conversations

Interoperability Technical Scenarios

Achieving Interoperability Through Standards


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