"Microsoft Corp. plans to open up more of its proprietary source
code to allow greater interoperability between different server
operating systems and its Windows client and server operating
systems.
"Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler told eWeek on Tuesday that the
Redmond, Wash.-based software firm would release the Server Message
Block (SMB) protocol later this summer to comply with the
provisions of the proposed final settlement between it and the
Department of Justice in that antitrust case.
'We will also be licensing additional protocols in the coming
months, on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, for the
purposes of interoperating with the Windows 2000 and Windows XP
client operating systems,' Desler said, declining to give specific
details..."
