Open Source firm teams with Microsoft

InternetNews | at | by Mike

Despite continued turmoil over standardization efforts surrounding its latest Office file formats, Microsoft announced this week it is pairing with Sourcesense, a European open source systems integrator, to work on projects that integrate open source software with the Office 2007 applications suite.

That and a second announcement seem to be meant to telegraph to developers and users a Microsoft commitment to expanding support for open source projects.