I have always embraced our sane stance in respect if interop, however, would very much like to see a reciprocal communication from MS and in particular engagements and evidence as to how we can join up on Customer business transformation projects...as it is here where we find parochialism and prejudice hijacking ...the Customer objectives...(invariably through inexperience and lack of expertise with Partner and Customer organisations) One things for sure...open standards assertions are not guiding our Customers solution selection.