It’s been a busy November from Redmond so far, with the TechEd Europe conference at the beginning of the month, and the Professional Developers Conference 2009 held this past week. Even being a Microsoft employee whose job it is to keep track of our enterprise...

I find that, in most of my conversations with customers, there still exists the prevailing notion that Microsoft offers a closed system and doesn’t offer much value with respect to interoperability. While I won’t argue that this may once have been the...