Microsoft Publicly Posts Additional Protocol Documentation (SharePoint)

REDMOND, Wash. — April 8, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today took another step toward fulfilling its interoperability principle of ensuring open connections to its high-volume products and driving greater interoperability, opportunity and choice across the IT community of developers, partners, customers and competitors.

Microsoft today posted on MSDN more than 14,000 pages of preliminary versions of technical documentation for Microsoft protocols built into Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. With this action, Microsoft will have posted a cumulative total of more than 44,000 pages of protocol documentation that it committed in its interoperability principles. Anyone who wishes to do so can now access, for free, preliminary versions of the documentation for the “connection points” between these Microsoft products as follows:

• Protocols between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office client applications;

• Protocols between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and other Microsoft server products;

•Protocols between Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook;

•Protocols between 2007 Microsoft Office system client applications and other Microsoft server products.

read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/apr08/04-08ProtocolPR.mspx