Yeah!
This was the same question lingering in everyone's mind today, when a Microsoft person talks to a bunch of Java/Eclipse developers at Eclipse Summit, Bangalore. You know they are one of the platinum sponsors of the conference! Microsoft and Open Community - Do you believe it !
The Director of InterOperability stuff - Mr.Ramkumar Kothandaraman, shared the surprise to the audience when he started his speech saying interoperability is a long word for Microsoft ( I could hear people murmur - its not a long word , its long time they didn't want it). But now Microsoft looks like they have learnt that world wants them to fight in the market wide "Open".
As Ramkumar rightly put it, Microsoft is now "Competing and colloborating" with it competitors mainly IBM, Oracle+Sun, and Google of course.. They have Eclipse tooling for Silverlight (Rich Internet Applications - div tag with an object tag - sounds familiar - it should have "flashed" in your mind now !) and Azure ( Cloud Computing Platform similar to GoogleApp).
They also participate in most of the standards commitees and they have authored multiple standards ( including the OpenXML , Microsoft's contribution to open world, another method for Open Office Documents , similar to ODF). I always wonder if its standard, then it should be always one and only one !!!
They have PHP native Support in IIS server on Windows, i.e. not as CGI , no separate process anymore but a single process and hence efficient PHP Code running on Windows. When you have so many languages in your pocket already, That's what you call Open!
They also have CodePlex similar to SourceForge.net.
I think gone are the days when people complained about Microsoft that they are closed technology. Looks like they are now ready to colloborate and compete !
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