Roger's Security Blog : Interoperability

News from the Interop front

rhalbh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:50:24 GMT

Not directly security related: I am often asked about the interoperability between our products and third-party products. Additionally people claim that we do not allow others to use our technology – that we lock you in.

Just now I read the following news:

Google just announced Google Sync, which licenses our Active Sync technology. As Horacio Gutierrez our Deputy General Counsel and VP for Intellectual Property & Licensing puts it: Google’s licensing of these Microsoft patents relating to the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol is a clear acknowledgement of the innovation taking place at Microsoft. This agreement is also a great example of Microsoft’ s openness to generally license our patents under fair and reasonable terms so long as licensees respect Microsoft intellectual property. This open approach has been part of Microsoft’s IP licensing policy since 2003 and has resulted in over 500 licensing agreements of the last five years.

They base that on the Exchange ActiveSync IP Licensing Program.

So, I would look forward for our competitors to do similar things and allow interop between their products and other vendors like us

Roger

Network Access Protection Client for Mac and Linux

rhalbh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:19:27 GMT

This is very exciting news: Unet, one of our NAP partners now delivers a NAP Client for Mac and Linux.

Here are some very cool screenshots from their website:

This is the Windows Client:

Here for Mac:

And finally for Linux:

If you are running mixed environments, you should look into

Roger

Office Binary Formats on the Web

rhalbh — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:32:00 GMT

I just wanted to make you aware that we put the Office Binary Formats on the web. We did this for interoperability reasons but often this can be very useful for forensics as well: Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats

Roger