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Through the Open Specifications program, Microsoft ishelping developers open new opportunities by making technical documents relatedto interoperability for certain popular Microsoft products available to viewand download at no charge.

Although the Open Specifications technical documents arefreely available, many of them include patented inventions. Some of thesepatents are available at no charge under theOpenSpecifications Promise or theMicrosoftCommunity Promise. The remaining patents are available throughvarious licensing programs. For more information, please visit theMicrosoft Open Specifications Dev Center website orsend an email message to theIP Licensing Team.

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Protocols

Microsoft publishes technical documents for protocols that are implemented in Windows client (including .NET Framework) and Windows Server (collectively Windows), Office, SharePoint Products and Technologies, Exchange Server, and Microsoft SQL Server and are used to communicate with other Microsoft software products.

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Computer Languages 

Microsoft publishes technical documents for the VBA programming language and Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML).

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Standards Support

Microsoft publishes technical documents that describe support for specific standards implemented in Exchange Server and Outlook; Internet Explorer; OData; Microsoft SQL Server; Windows WordPad; and Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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Data Portability 

Microsoft publishes technical documents for the file formats created by Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and by SQL Server. Additionally, it publishes technical documents that describe how user-created data in SQL Server can be extracted for use in other software products.

Microsoft revises the technical documents regularly and,particularly, in connection with the release of significant product updates andnew versions.

Q&A and Blogs

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Exchange Server Open Specifications and Standards Support - Microsoft Q&A

Home to technical questions and answers about Exchange Server Open Specifications and Standards Support documents.

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Office Open Specifications, Standards Support, and File Formats - Microsoft Q&A

Home to technical questions and answers about Office Open Specifications, Standards Support, and File Format documents.

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SharePoint Server Open Specifications - Microsoft Q&A

Home to technical questions and answers about SharePoint Server Open Specifications documents.

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SQL Server Open Specifications, Standards Support and Data Portability - Microsoft Q&A

Home to technical questions and answers about SQL Server Open Specifications, Standards Support and Data Portability documents.

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Windows Open Specifications and Standards Support - Microsoft Q&A

Home to technical questions and answers about Windows Open Specifications and Standards Support documents.

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Open Specifications Blogs

These blogs, authored by the engineers who support the Open Specifications documents, provide a different venue for further discussion of those documents.

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