Microsoft & Interoperability (MSFT)

Apps & Software

Published: February 21, 2008 11:21 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products:

ensuring open connections;
promoting data portability;
enhancing support for industry standards;
fostering more open engagement with customers and the industry, including open source communities.

This isn’t a full open-source initiative. We wouldn’t expect that the company will ever make all of its efforts open source, although "ever" is quite a long time. It is also aimed at being being more EU-compliant. We’d encourage you to go straight to the guts of the company release because the list of initiatives and comments is rather long.

Microsoft shares have pulled back about 1% since this news first broke as traders are not looking at this as any major change to its revenue or earnings structure. Shares are still up 0.7% at $28.42 in mid-morning trading.

Jon C. Ogg
February 21, 2008

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