Gates said the companies strategy will focus on next-generation software and Web services based on XML. With Microsoft's huge developer network behind Microsoft's interoperability designs, the company is likely to be able to continue to dictate default standards, even for third-party software.
Bill Gates has taken another jab at Linux in an e-mail to customers published on Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Web site Thursday in which he sings the praises of software interoperability and his company's ability to provide it.
"Open source is a methodology for licensing and/or developing software -- that may or may not be interoperable. Additionally, the open source development approach encourages the creation of many permutations of the same type of software application, which could add implementation and testing overhead to interoperability efforts," Gates said in the letter.
Third-Party Interoperability
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