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Microsoft Establishes Customer Council on Interoperability
Microsoft Corp. has
announced a new Interoperability initiative.
"Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has formed the Interoperability
Customer Executive Council to identify areas for interoperability
improvements across its products and the overall software industry.
Customers are working in increasingly heterogeneous IT environments and
asking for a greater level of interoperability from their IT vendors.
Microsoft is committed to building bridges across the industry to deliver
products to its customers that are interoperable by design."
The Linux issues addressed include supporting Linux on
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, a collaboration agreement with
Sugar CRM Inc. and: "dialogue about interoperability issues for
Windows(R), Linux, UNIX and open-source software on its community Web
site, Port 25."
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Microsoft Establishes Customer Council on Interoperability Posted Jun 15, 2006 18:16 UTC (Thu) by fredex (subscriber, #11727) [Link] don' need no steenkin' dialogue.
All that's needed is accurate and complete specifications that allow for unfettered implementation and use (and re-distribution and re-use).
Microsoft Establishes Customer Council on Interoperability Posted Jun 15, 2006 18:34 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link] You know, I'm such a fan of GetTheFacts.com and Microsoft that thisannouncement has me going wild! GetOurSpecifications.com should be right around the corner!
"odf" is finally effecting MS PR Posted Jun 15, 2006 19:33 UTC (Thu) by kornak (guest, #17589) [Link] The odf standard has finally forced Microsoft to initiate anothercounter-offensive for all the bad PR they are recieving with regards to following industry standards.
Microsoft Establishes Customer Council on Interoperability Posted Jun 15, 2006 19:48 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Shouldn't that be "Windows(R), Linux(R), Unix(R) and open source software"? Microsoft isn't the only one that uses trademarks, y'know... (I'm not sure if Open Source is a registered trademark, but I wouldn't be surprised...)
"Open Source" is trademarked Posted Jun 15, 2006 20:00 UTC (Thu) by scottt (subscriber, #5028) [Link] see:http://opensource.org/trademarks/
"Open Source" is trademarked Posted Jun 16, 2006 8:32 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] Where's any comment about "Open Source" being trademarked? Last I knew, the request for (R) had been turned down by the trademark office.
You can have anything you damn well please as a (TM) trademark, but to make it as an (R) trademark, you need to register it, and there are rules. "Open Source", unfortunately, falls foul of the very same rules that should have blocked the "Windows" trademark.
So no. afaict, there is no such thing as "Open Source (R)". And that link certainly makes no mention of any such thing ...
Cheers,
Full page spin in E.U. political magazine Posted Jun 16, 2006 6:46 UTC (Fri) by j_heald (guest, #15398) [Link] Last week MS also took out a full page advertisement in the European Voice, a political magazine published by the Economist group circulated directly to E.U. politicians in Brussels.Headlined "Interoperability", the advertisement says that Interoperability is about ensuring that people, businesses and governments around the world can choose whatever software and hardware products best meet their needs, confident they'll work well together. Whether it's a large organization with a complex IT infrastructure of multi-vendor products, or an individual connecting a digital camera to a PC, or instant messaging a friend, Microsoft has a longstanding commitment to its customers to help software and hardware products from different companies work well together.The advert also cites a German academic study which found that Microsoft technologies and products do function smoothly with technologies and products from other vendorsand asserts that Independent Survey ranks Microsoft #1Evidently this is an area in which Microsoft is feeling it needs to do some urgent PR work, to try to divert a hostile political agenda more toward its own interest.
Full page spin in E.U. political magazine Posted Jun 16, 2006 8:35 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] Notice "Windows (79%) as being the most important platform with which new applications need to interoperate".
In other words, other stuff has to interoperate with Windows, but Windows needn't interoperate the other way ... typical MS through and through!
Cheers,
Full page spin in E.U. political magazine Posted Jun 16, 2006 19:16 UTC (Fri) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link] Would that be the Independent Survey of Microsofts own technology managers. If they won't give the details there is no way to know.
Microsoft Establishes Customer Council on Interoperability Posted Jun 16, 2006 18:25 UTC (Fri) by dokhebi (guest, #14023) [Link] If Microsoft wants to interoperate with other software, they can start by opening up the code for the NTFS drivers so non-MS operating systems have access to their drives, and creating drivers for non MS filesystems so they can mount on Windows.
Microsoft Establishes Customer Council on Interoperability Posted Jun 16, 2006 23:36 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] There are no need to open up code (I'm pretty sure it'll be useless anyway). Documentation of on-disk format will be more then enough. But of course that's not in Microsoft's interest... And I'm not even sure it even exist...
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