Microsoft is offering greater access to its intellectual property in a bid to increase interoperability and innovation in the market.
The firm said it would begin to make its intellectual property available at "fair and reasonable terms" to any company, potentially even competitors.
The deal extends across more than 4,000 pieces of intellectual property, including copyrights, schema, trademarks, software technology and file formats, with academic communities being granted royalty-free licences for non-commercial use.
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