Microsoft Uncovered

In the longest part of its history, Microsoft used a closed source approach, but now it seems they are becoming more and more open to the world. Obviously, this may not be entirely their will, but after all...they can't move against an entire industry, especially with all those lawsuits filed against them in the last years!


Well, the good news is that Microsoft said on Tuesday to have posted more than 14,000 pages of technical documentation for underlying software code in its applications. This impressive amount of information is not final, because we're talking about preliminary versions, but this is still a very good sign, in my opinion.

The protocols Microsoft revealed to the public now are build into the following products: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. With these last secrets revealed, Microsoft reached the 44,000 pages mark, and I guess they won't stop here. The only problem is to see everything working properly in the near future, and not the Redmond giant publishing some documentation, just to find their products using new standards a few weeks later...