Microsoft opens up - sort of...

[Sporkman]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080408/tc_nm/microsoft_protocols_dc_1


Microsoft says publishes more software information

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2 hours, 30 minutes ago

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday it has posted online more than 14,000 pages of preliminary versions of technical documentation for underlying software code in its software programs.

The underlying code, or protocols, are built into Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

In February, the world's biggest software maker, faced with regulatory concerns in Europe and customers struggling with complex computer systems, said it would publish information so rival programs can work better with Windows, Office and other major products.

With Tuesday's disclosures, Microsoft said it will have published more than 44,000 pages of underlying code documentation to which it had been committed.

[DoctorMO]

I'll believe it when Andrew Tidgall says it's to be believed.

[Blue Heron]

hehe, Steve has a great body language :-({|=

[qamelian]

hehe, Steve has a great body language :-({|=
He looks like he's about to perform a magic trick...like making a chair disappear!
:lolflag:

[ShodanjoDM]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg

"I know my kung-fu. Show me yours."

[Mazza558]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg

"This is the size of the bump I caused on a programmer's head when I threw the chair"

[scragar]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg
"This is our competitors profit margins, but this right up here is ours..."

[Mazza558]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg

"Every time you convert someone to Linux, a giant kitten of this height dies"

[ShodanjoDM]

"Every time you convert someone to Linux, a giant kitten of this height dies"

:lolflag::lolflag::lolflag:

[LaRoza]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg

"Now, watch my hands closely as our lawyers find out how to get around these silly anti-trust laws"

[smoker]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg

"Vista sales expectation has gone down from here, to here!"

[Mazza558]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg

"Now, back in my day, memory sticks were this big, and you had to wind them up... you could lose a finger if you weren't careful"

[klange]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg
"You won't be getting anything electronically, you'll have to order it printed. And the stack is this big."

[ShodanjoDM]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg

Huh? What? My armpits smell bad you say?

[scragar]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg
"what do you mean I'm no good at the robot?"

[kinematic]

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[kinematic]

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080408/2008_04_08t112851_450x340_us_microsoft_protocols.j pg
"I was this big in highschool so I got picked on a lot and now I try to bully people around to compensate "