Microsoft Opens up to Third Party Developers
In an effort to get the EU off Microsoft’s back, Steve Ballmer held a press conference today that will completely change the way Microsoft does business..at least as far as their products are concerned. The company is going ‘open’,and will begin publishing documentation for all of its “high-volume product” APIs free of charge. The company will also detail patents it holds and applications that cover its protocols, and provide a “covenant not to sue open source developers for development or non-commercial distribution of implementations of these protocols.”
What does this mean for Apple? Well, it means they, along with every other third-party developer, has a new found ability to create unprecedented interoperability with all of Microsoft’s high-volume products including Windows and MS Office.
Click here to read the full press release from MS.
Comments
Bryan
February 21st, 2008 at 11:59 am
All of their BSOD secrets will now be ours…actually, maybe this is a step towards stability??? Naw…
Free iPod Touch
February 21st, 2008 at 10:04 pm
This is great news
Thanks Microsoft 
James
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:20 am
If true – this is good news.