Microsoft senior vice president, Bob Muglia, will announce the details of the alliance in Barcelona, Spain at an event for European software developers. This latest move for Microsoft is a step in the direction of being a company that can adapt and work with their customers and the other goods and services they use from competing companies.
Recently Microsoft struck a deal with Novell (NOVL) to ensure that Novell's version of the Linux operating system would work with Windows in corporate data centers. Of course you could say Microsoft isn't so much worried about 'playing nice' as they are making sure they aren't left behind when such programs as the open-source Linux software becomes a rival they can't defeat.
Microsoft is financing the new Interop Vendor Alliance, which will begin with 22 corporate members, who will work publicly and privately to share info that faces their customers as well as test real-world situations.
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