Microsoft is providing open connections to its high-volume products—Windows Vista (including the .NET Framework), Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007—as well as additional information so that software developers, business partners and competitors can better interact with these Microsoft products or invent new solutions for customers.

As a developer, you now have full access to information about protocols, binary file formats, and other specifications for these products that can be used to create solutions. In the Open Specifications section you can find:

• Protocol documentation for Windows client and Windows Server covered by the MCPP and WSPP licensing programs, made available pursuant to the Consent Decree and the European Commission's 2004 Decision, together with protocol documentation for Application Services and the .NET Framework.
• Protocol documentation for Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 to Microsoft Outlook 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Format documentation for the Office Binary File formats.
• Documentation for certain Microsoft computer languages that are implemented by Microsoft products.

The Open Specifications include all of this documentation, which may now be accessed without charge and without restriction on this MSDN Library.

More Information

For more information on these protocols, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/protocols.

Questions

If you have questions about the protocol documentation, please visit the Open Specifications Forums on MSDN.