The Redmond software giant (NASDAQ: MSFT) say publicly that they plan to share more of its technical papers with IT developers as part of a “major alterations” in how the company shares information on the month of February.

On Tuesday, the company said that they had posted beginning edition of technical documentation for protocols built into Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Developers do not require paying a fee or taking a license to make use of the information.

Tom Robertson, general manager of interoperability and standards at Microsoft said that “We suppose that providing open, regular right to utilize these protocols will promote and set free the vision of all developers to work on real-world interoperability solutions,”