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EU just levied another $1.3B fine against MS despite this "announcement". What excuse did MS *ever* have for keeping proprietary such interfaces as:

- NTFS file system
- Active Directory
- Exchange Server

Not only is it bad business - it's also anti-competitive. MS: learn to compete on the merits of your products (clients or servers) and NOT on the illegal tying of one to the other.

Microsoft needs to provide the documentation not JUST to a bunch of API's that allow limited interoperability to these products. It also should enable RECPLACEMENT by a 3rd party of either clients or servers. For example, has anyone made a clone of:

- Exchange Server
- Domain Controller
- Exchange Client

Would there not be a large and profitable market for any of these? The fact that no one has, tells me that MS protocols are not yet "open enough".

Quoted: As an immediate next step, starting today Microsoft will openly publish on MSDN over 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols that were previously available only under a trade secret license through the Microsoft Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP) and the Microsoft Communication Protocol Program (MCPP). Protocol documentation for additional products, such as Office 2007 and all of the other high-volume products covered by these principles, will be published in the upcoming months.

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