News Commentary. Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom is sure to drum up nothing but trouble....

I tend to think of interoperability as a gradient. The old industry stalwart from the 1990's is what I'd call "runtime interoperability", wherein you could write a Java EE application, deploy it on a Java EE application server, and (with a questionable amount of tweaking), get it to operate. SQL was...

While I’ve been saying “see em eye ess” for CMIS up to this point, I’ve discovered that others are pronouncing CMIS “see miss” instead. One’s pronunciation of SQL has been offered in support of pronouncing CMIS (i.e. “see qul” versus “ess q...

News Analysis. Damn, if Ray Ozzie isn't talking about meshes again.......

Let’s be real, interoperability can be hard – at least that is what our customers and independent software vendors (ISV) are telling us.  Two years ago, I joined Microsoft from an ISV that both partnered and competed with Microsoft.  My opportunity was to make a difference in how Micro...

I read Dick Caro's, Which Way Wireless article published last Friday on the ControlGlobal.com site. It discusses WirelessHART and ISA100.11a and their paths to standards. He describes ISA100:ISA100.11a is the name of the first standard being developed by the ISA SP-100 standards committee. The commi...

A question popped up on an internal email distribution list today about how to expose a WCF service using WebGet and how to post POX (plain old XML) to that service using the .NET 3.5 WebInvoke attribute.  That part's easy, but the harder part is figuring out how to use Fiddler as a client to i...

The latest stable version of Metro (which ships as part of GlassFish v2) has been extensively tested with Microsoft's WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) version 3.0. The next version of .Net 3.5 is already out and the team is working hard to achieve the best possible interoperability with this n...

Our new show, "Communicating", is live on Channel9.  My teammate, Michael Scherotter, posted a great set of interviews with Technicolor, Starz, and Reborn Studio.  I love the Starz interview, you get a real behind the scenes look at how a well-known broadcasting company uses technology. I ...

In one of the more abrupt u-turns in recent corporate history, Microsoft announces changes to both development and business practices intended to "increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors." De...