According to a wordy press release issued by the company, the Redmond giant will begin embracing an open attitude by publishing documentation for all of its "high-volume product" APIs free of charge, will detail patents it holds and applications that cover its protocols... at first thought "is it April first already"... but then again, they could be having the tech version of a mid-life crises.. they already have the sports cars.... so the next this to do is to jump in bed with open source... oh wait they did that too with the agreement/deal with Novell... I think the truth is that they are finally realizing there image problem after the fall out with the Yahoo announcement... the blogosphere exploded with dislike and distrust for Microsoft. Heck I'm one of them, I've already started migrating some of my services away from Yahoo. The other problem is that they are loosing developers to web apps since developers are tired of having to fight for information. In todays developer environment, if the docs aren't open and available... we'll look elsewhere for a solution... and solution there are and they are out there....
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