It seems like when you discuss anything with MS they always point to their career site, you cannot get them to sell you any service manual for their X-Box 360, and they seem closed to their products as well licensed vendors, repair facility, including software.

Open source will accept anything, but my School will not allow open source for submitting documents, it has to be MS, Adobe, etc.. most employers buy the licensed stuff, and I have used Open Source.

its unfortunate Microsoft will not look openly like Linux, Google, etc..