Microsoft Asks for Joint Effort to Ensure Interoperability Date:   Sunday , March 01, 2009 The IT giant Microsoft is calling for combined effort from the industry players to ensure interoperability of technology innovations. Highlighting the need for making technologies interoperable, Microsoft organized a conference on 'Real World Interoperability Through Application Integration and SOA', at the Interoperability Lab in Bangalore where the company showcased its latest interoperable solutions along with its partners and customers. Microsoft asserts that the rapid pace of innovations in technology companies poses a challenge for interoperability of applications. "The pace of technology innovation is very fast, so the biggest need is making all these infinite number of technologies interoperable, which requires the industry to work together," says Craig Kitterman, Sr. Technical Evangelist, Interoperability Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE), Microsoft.