The Microsoft Open Specification Promise (or OSP) is a promise by Microsoft, published in September 2006, to not assert its patents, in certain conditions...
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now Microsoft Open Specification Promise) PPT – Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation file format (formerly closed/undocumented, now Microsoft Open Specification...
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endorsing it. Microsoft has added the format to their Open Specification Promise in which Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary...
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Doc (computing) (redirect from Microsoft Word document)
February 15, 2008, Microsoft released a .DOC format specification under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. However, this specification does not describe...
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2005, Microsoft has made the VHD and VHDX Image Format Specifications available to third parties under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. A Virtual...
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of Microsoft intellectual property. Microsoft Office 2003 XML formats Office Open XML OpenDocument "Microsoft Open Specification Promise". Microsoft. Retrieved...
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standard way. Microsoft initiated OData in 2007. Versions 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 are released under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. Version 4.0 was...
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Office Open XML specification free of copyrights and Microsoft has granted patent rights to the formats technology under the Open Specification Promise and...
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OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheets". W3C Panose document standard proposal Freely Available ISO Standards "Microsoft Open Specification Promise". Microsoft...
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description language and a fixed-document format. Microsoft developed it as the XML Paper Specification (XPS). In June 2009, Ecma International adopted...
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"Microsoft Open Specification Promise". Microsoft. Retrieved December 11, 2011. "Microsoft ASF specification". Microsoft. Retrieved December 11, 2011....
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Hyper-V (redirect from Microsoft Hyper-V)
software Features new to Windows 8 Virtual disk image Microsoft Open Specification Promise Microsoft Remote Web Workplace Virtual private server Windows...
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FeedSync (section Specifications)
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (version 2.5) and the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. The scope of FeedSync for Atom and RSS is to define the...
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web page. Microsoft developed the Web Slice format, and published a specification under their Open Specification Promise. The specification is not published...
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primarily by Microsoft, both of which are subject to the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and are used to store word processing documents DjVu (.djv...
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Extensible Application Markup Language (category Microsoft application programming interfaces)
language developed by Microsoft for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise. XAML is used extensively...
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Active Directory (redirect from Microsoft Active Directory)
Server 2003 Microsoft MSDN Library: [MS-ADTS]: Active Directory Technical Specification (part of the Microsoft Open Specification Promise) Active Directory...
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Moonlight (runtime) (category Microsoft Silverlight)
release, "The Silverlight XAML vocabulary specification, released under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, will better enable third-party ISVs to...
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(SSTP)". Microsoft TechNet. 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2015-10-17. [MS-SSTP]: Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) by Microsoft Open Specification Promise RRAS...
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on OpenJDK complies with the Java SE 6 specification). Also in November 2007, the Porters Group was created on OpenJDK to aid in efforts to port OpenJDK...
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JPEG XR (category Microsoft Windows multimedia technology)
use of HD Photo, the specification is made available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, which asserts that Microsoft allows implementation...
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Computing Related topics Forking GNU Manifesto Microsoft Open Specification Promise Open-core model Open-source hardware Shared Source Initiative Source-available...
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programs. The latest specification of UIA is found as part of the Microsoft UI Automation Community Promise Specification. Microsoft claims that portability...
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Apache POI (category Microsoft Office-related software)
contributors questioning POI OOXML patent protection regarding Microsoft's Open Specification Promise patent license. The Apache POI project contains the following...
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar (category Open Publication License-licensed works)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, and later a book, by Eric...
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.NET Framework (redirect from Microsoft .NET Framework)
compliance with the mandatory parts of the CLI specification. On March 31, 2016, Microsoft announced at Microsoft Build that they will completely relicense...
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Windows Metafile (category Microsoft Windows multimedia technology)
2006, Microsoft again published the WMF file format specification in a more complete form in the context of the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, promising...
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Common Language Infrastructure (redirect from Common Language Specification)
Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an open specification and technical standard originally developed by Microsoft and standardized by ISO/IEC (ISO/IEC...
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Internet Explorer 8 (redirect from Microsoft IE8)
Public Domain Dedication. It is also covered by the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. Windows RSS Platform also supports authenticated feeds beginning...
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OGL++ and a lot of the effort was aimed at a specification and implementation that could deliver on the promise of a truly powerful yet generic scene graph...
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