Microsoft opens Office 2007, SharePoint to developers

MS-Watch | at | by Mike

The Redmond software maker is continuing to beat the developer drum for its information-worker platforms with Office Business Application Services and Line of Business Interoperability capabilities.

Microsoft is making more of its gut Office and SharePoint technologies and services available to third-party application developers.

Microsoft has been beating the developer drum for its SharePoint and Office technologies for months, if not years. But at the TechEd conference here, company officials crystallized some of the concepts they've been evangelizing.