Microsoft Shared Resource and Open Source

2011-06-30


More and more people recognized Microsoft has started spending more time to focus on open source. such as, they released some software tools about PHP, WordPress, drupal…etc. 

We got several links about Microsoft shared resource and open source :

1: Shared Source Initiative;

2: Microsoft Openness

About Microsoft Openness

"Our goal is to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry by making our products more open and by sharing even more information about our technologies," as stated by Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft.

Microsoft has changed as a company and is becoming more open in the way that we work with and collaborate with others in the industry, in how we listen to customers, and in our approach to the cloud.

We contribute to and partner with open source communities and promote interoperability to make it easier and less costly for customers to develop and manage mixed IT environments. We actively participate in the standards setting process and support established and emerging standards in our products.

In the cloud, we support key standards that provide the building blocks for open, interoperable cloud services, and we support developer choice of programming languages. We support data portability and believe customers own and control their data, no matter where it resides.

Watch this video where James Utzschneider, General Manager of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Microsoft explains how Microsoft is becoming more open.