The software giant on Tuesday published the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, a document that says that Microsoft will not sue anyone who creates software based on Web services technology ...

Microsoft has struck out at the Software Freedom Law Center's claims that its Open Specification Promise is not as open as it should be. The SFLC published a legal analysis of Microsoft's Open ...

Microsoft will reveal on Tuesday its intent to open up its planned “M” application modeling language via the company’s OSP (Open Specification Promise), according to the company. The company ...

Company's Open Specification Promise (OSP), designed to prevent patent problems for third parties, provides "no assurances" to GPL developers, says Software Freedom Law Center. Martin LaMonica is ...

it will be released under our Open Specification Promise, which will allow anyone to implement the .pst file format on any platform and in any tool, without concerns about patents, and without the ...

Today while at the Citrix iForum, Mike Neil (GM, Virtualization at Microsoft) said that Microsoft will be extending the Open Specification Promise to the hypercall application programmer's ...

Microsoft has cleared the way for its Info Card identity system to be widely adopted, and/or for other systems to interoperate, by making the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. Basically this ...

"By putting Sender ID under the Open Specification Promise, our goal is to put those questions to rest and advance interoperable efforts for online safety worldwide." In an effort to weed out ...