Looks like Microsoft is changing their strategy a bit. Competing fiercly against OpenSource and Linux in he software sales front, Microsoft has launched a site under technet that focuses on communicating information about their Open Source lab. The site is called “Port 25” and the tag line of the site is “The people, insights, and analysis from the Microsoft Open Source Software Lab.”

At this point the site doesn’t have a great deal of content. While some articles I have read on this have implied that this is an effort to better communicate with the community, we’ll see what the real motives behind this site are over the coming months. I can see this site being used in one of two ways. (1) To genuinely communicate with the Open Source Community to help the software industry as a whole develop better software for users, or (2) promote (market) Windows and Microsoft software as superior products by pointing out the weaknesses in the OpenSource software they are testing. If the latter is the case, I’m sure they won’t be blatently obvious about the site being focus on marketing. Hopefully this site will be a possitive move both for Microsoft and Open Source.