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Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets
OrochimaruVoldemort writes "In an unexpected move, Microsoft has disclosed 14,000 pages of coding secrets. According to The Register: 'This is Microsoft's latest effort to satisfy anti-trust concerns of the European Union, which is possibly a tougher adversary for the company than Google.' The article mentioned that this will be done in three phases. 'Between now and June it will garner feedback from the developer community. Then, at the end of June, Microsoft will publish the final versions of technical documentation — along with definitive patent licensing terms.' Lets just hope those terms are pro open source."
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I've always wondered how much internal documentation Microsoft has generated for their products. Things like formal specifications, as opposed to "look at the source code".
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Yeah, I checked it out. They don't tell you much on the site...
Although I'm sure their implementation is a good thing for some bigger companies
my IT department is just looking for third party tools to get the job done. We
don't get the oppurtunity to do much programming on windows.
On the other hand we have had a lot of success replacing windows in the server
room with Debian boxes. Pretty much everything but mail runs on them now and we
do get the oppurtunity to write some code on these. Mostly scripts, a smattering
of c just because I can't resist some times. We don't use java much.
Our employees are hooked on Outlook, journals especially (I loathe them, space
eating buggers) so we keep exchange chugging along and a couple of domain
controllers. Everyone except IT uses windows, IT uses linux and virtual machines
for supporting windows in the workplace and all OS's that our products are used
with (which is pretty much windows2k+/macOSX+/linux kernal 2.4+).
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