It has been a long while since I have posted, as I have been busy working with the global Microsoft community, helping re-scope/expand our efforts around delivering relevant interoperability solutions between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies worldwide. We recognize that effective interoperability is a key component of efficiency – enabling improved leverage of IT assets – which is now more important than ever.

We (the Microsoft interoperability team) have launched a new team blog where we will post updates on many of the technical projects that are underway to address real market needs. I am also really hoping that this blog can be used to gather great feedback from you in terms of the things we should be focused on. The ultimate goal of course is to be pragmatic and practical to maximize the impact of everything we do for our customers who live in the reality of today's heterogeneous IT environment.

Please check out http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability to read the introduction by Jean Paoli and bookmark for future updates.

As always, I look forward to hearing from you here AND there.

Cheers,

-C