Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Mar 2007 16:49 UTC, submitted by flanque
Microsoft is making key communications protocols available for license, so that third parties, including competitors, can link into the company's newest enterprise products. Some are available immediately. The list of available protocols, XML schemas and application programming interfaces include transport protocols for communications between Office Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
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2006-01-04
Microsoft has been forced to release them only because of their near-monopoly status.
Have you not been paying attention to this lawsuit? Or are you presuming that no one else has been?
Microsoft has had this legal remedy forced on them because of their abuse of market power and because the remedies they were willing to implement weren't satisfactory. Even if they weren't a monopoly (or near-monopoly as you nearly described it) this remedy would be appropriate because of what MS has done.
It would also appear that "best", as you use the word, means the one that can't be avoided without taking special efforts. Alternatively "best" may mean the one that makes standard software fail to conect to 'Doze. It certainly doesn't refer to high quality, ease of use and reliability/security.