Microsoft has been making a lot headlines recently, mostly centered around the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the first major revision to Microsoft’s latest OS. The company announced that it will be adding the Open Connectivity Forum (formerly, the Open Interconnect Consortium, and now featuring Microsoft as a key member) protocols to Windows 10 later this year. The OCF’s open-source implementation of its standard is called IoTivity, and is a direct rival to the AllSeen Alliance’s AllJoyn framework. Both software environments aim to allow devices to discover each other in a transport-agnostic manner, and subsequently communicate – which allows them to form larger interoperable ecosystems. Microsoft is offering an open source bridge to connect the OCF’s IoTivity with the already…