Interesantes palabras de mi amigo Carlos Zayas que les dejo a continuación:

El término de moda es “interoperabilidad”…
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/feb08/02-21ExpandInteroperabilityPR.mspx

Pero la Unión Europea no se traga el cuento tan fácilmente…
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080221-eu-to-ms-well-believe-it-when-we-see-it.html

¿Dónde están las patentes infringidas? Microsoft parece apuntar al aire…
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071122-microsofts-open-source-rhetoric-remains-dangerously-inconsistent.html

Recién se dieron cuenta que los documentos y los datos creados en una
aplicación pueden durar más que la aplicación misma:

“As an industry we have progressively learned that documents and data
have a lifetime that frequently spans well beyond the lifetime of any
application used to create it, and issues such as document
preservation and portability have become vital concerns for
customers.”

- Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect

Chúlina, ahora Ballmer le quiere al Open Source:

Steve Ballmer announced the launch of the Open Source Interoperability
Initiative, which will provide a set of labs, technical content and
other information to promote more interoperability between Microsoft
software and open-source software.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Execs-Commit-to-Greater-Interoperability