27.03.2008
Microsoft To Implement Change By Posting XAML Specification
Keeping up to the promise of implementing strategic changes in its technology and business practices, Software giant, Microsoft has announced more technical information for XAML, a language for designing the user interface of Web and Windows applications. This documentation is freely available for public.
According to the company, the documentation is aimed at other software companies and developers who want to make products that can read XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language). The added technical detail will allow servers from other companies to send information to clients written using XAML.
The information is covered under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise, which is meant to protect third parties from patent infringement. Microsoft’s Silverlight Web browser plug-in for displaying media can render XAML along with JavaScript and HTML.
XAML is a lingua franca that designers can use with Expression tools and developers can manipulate with Visual Studio. The posting of additional technical information is part of Microsoft's ongoing efforts around interoperability with products from other vendors, including open-source software.
In a statement, Tom Robertson, Microsoft’s general manager of interoperability and standards said, “posting of the expanded set of XAML format documentation to assist third parties to access and implement the XAML formats in their own client, server and tool products will help promote interoperability, opportunity and choice across the IT community. Use of the Open Specification assures developers that they can use any Microsoft patents needed to implement all or part of the XAML formats for free, anywhere in the world”.
