Microsoft and Intel Announce Wireless Development Initiative

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Today at the 3GSM World Congress 2002, Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. announced that they have formed an initiative to develop reference designs for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smart phones.

The reference designs, based on the Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: Powered Pocket PC and Smartphone 2002 software platforms and the Intel:registered: Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA), will promote the rapid development of next-generation wireless applications and services for consumer and enterprise market segments. In addition, this collaboration will enable wireless device and software companies to expedite the market availability of their respective mobile solutions.

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First MPEG-4 Decoder Card

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SIGMA ANNOUNCES FIRST MPEG-4 DECODER CARD FOR PC USE

Sigma Designs (Nasdaq:SIGM), a leader in IP video streaming solutions, announced the first MPEG-4 client player add-in card for the PC. Marketed under the name REALmagic Xcard:tm:, Sigma's newest MPEG-4 offering turns a PC into a home theatre solution, providing TV playback of top entertainment content from DivX Networks, DVDs and new Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) compliant video streams. Sigma's REALmagic Xcard will retail for $99.95 and will be available initially from the company's REALmagic Online store at www.buyrealmagic.com starting March 2002.

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BizTalk Server 2002

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Microsoft:registered: BizTalk:tm: Server 2002. Building on the landmark release of BizTalk Server 2000, which has become one of the fastest-growing integration software solutions in the industry, BizTalk Server 2002 adds additional support for orchestrating Web services through Visual Studio:registered: .NET; revolutionary new SEED technology for rapid business partner connectivity; and new tools for advanced management, monitoring and deployment capabilities within the enterprise. Tyco International Ltd. chose BizTalk Server 2002, Commerce Server 2000 and SQL Server:tm: 2000 to build its supplier enablement solution for one of its largest companies, Tyco Valves & Controls.

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Network Appliance debuts SnapDrive for SQL Server 2000

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Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leading provider of network-attached data access and content delivery solutions, has announced SnapDrive for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, an integrated data management solution that significantly increases SQL Server 2000 database availability, scalability and reliability at an extremely low cost of ownership.

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Sound Blaster Extigy

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CREATIVE LAUNCHES SOUND BLASTER EXTIGY - FIRST EXTERNAL SOUND BLASTER

MILPITAS, Calif. - January 8, 2002 - Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: CREAF), the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for users of the personal computer and the Internet, today unveiled the Sound Blaster:registered: Extigy:tm:, the first external Sound Blaster in Creative's history. The Sound Blaster Extigy delivers stunning 24-bit 96kHz multi-channel audio playback and 100dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). It enhances audio for digital music, DVD movies and games from an easy-to-use, compact external device that connects to the notebook or desktop via the Universal Serial Bus (USB) port. The Sound Blaster Extigy is slated to ship this month at an estimated street price of US$149.99.

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Leading DVD Player Manufacturers Announce Support For Windows Media

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Today at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. announced that leading DVD player manufacturers have adopted Microsoft:registered: Windows Media (TM) Technologies for their new DVD players. Panasonic and Apex Digital Inc. today unveiled the first DVD players supporting Windows Media Audio (WMA), which enables consumers to play back more than 22 hours of their favorite music from a single CD and, for DVD players that support DVD-R, enable them to store almost 250 albums on a single DVD. In addition, Shinco (Jiangsu Shinco Electronics Group Company Ltd.), and Toshiba Corp. announced plans to support Windows Media in DVD players introduced in 2002. These consumer electronics manufacturers account for a significant number of the DVD players manufactured and sold in the United States in 2001. In October, for the first time, the sale of DVD players to consumers eclipsed that of VCRs according to the Consumer Electronics Association.

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Server Appliance Kit 2.0 Add-On Pack

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of the Microsoft:registered: Server Appliance Kit (SAK) 2.0 Add-On Pack, which delivers a comprehensive set of management capabilities for fixed-function server appliances such as Web servers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. Designed for IT administrators, the new capabilities are the Multiple Device Manager (MDM), which enables the management of many physical server appliance devices from a central console, and the Role-Based User Interface (RBUI), which supports delegated management of the Web UI. In addition, industry-leading original equipment manufacturers including Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Maxtor Corp., RLX Technologies Inc. and Transtec AG announced their plans to ship Windows:registered: Powered server appliance products based on SAK 2.0 with the Add-On Pack.

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eTesting Labs Study Shows Windows Media Player ...

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...for Windows XP Is Nearly Twice as Fast as Real Jukebox or RealOne For Common Digital Media Tasks

Microsoft Corp. today announced results of an independent third-party study from eTesting Labs Inc. (http://www.etestinglabs.com/) showing that the new Windows Media:tm: Player for Windows:registered: XP is the fastest full-featured media player for common digital media tasks and uses fewer computer memory resources than other players tested. In a testing scenario encompassing starting up the player, initiating MP3 playback and burning six songs onto a CDR using Redbook audio format, Windows Media Player for Windows XP took less than half the time of RealOne and Real Jukebox.

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Microsoft and uBid Announce Strategic Alliance

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Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq MSFT) and uBid, a leading online auction and e-commerce marketplace and majority-owned operating company of CMGI Inc. (Nasdaq CMGI), today announced a broad-based alliance that will create an enhanced user experience for the companies' shared customers via Microsoft:registered: .NET and the MSN:registered: network of Internet services.

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Microsoft to Showcase .NET at Western Show 2001

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Microsoft Corp. will demonstrate the role of Microsoft:registered: .NET in the future of interactive television services at the Western Show 2001 in Anaheim, Calif., Nov. 27–30. Through the .NET Lounge, an interactive set of demo stations located at the Microsoft booth (Booth No. 5031, Hall B), Microsoft will highlight how cable operators can use XML-based Web services to provide an enhanced user experience to increase subscriber loyalty, create a deeper customer relationship and enable additional revenue opportunities. The demonstrations will show how cable operators and iTV developers can use XML-based Web services to offer a range of personalized, integrated services to their subscribers including Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging from the television to mobile phone; instant messaging between the television and the PC; remote programming of personal video recording (PVR) devices; and media management for photos, music and videos.

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Microsoft .NET Best Student Awards 2001

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Invite Students to Compete In Web Services Contest

Microsoft Corp. today announced the .NET Best Student Awards 2001, an XML Web services contest challenging North American college and university students to develop exciting new XML Web services applications for the .NET Platform. The contest will recognize student developers who innovate with industry-standard protocols such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI to deliver the best applications and solutions with Microsoft:registered: .NET. The contest, targeted to students in the United States and Canada, excluding Quebec, will award over $60,000 in cash, scholarship contributions and prizes to students whose Web services are selected.

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Exchange Administrators Count on MOM to Manage Their Servers

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IT professionals now have a new scalable, enterprise-ready tool to monitor the health of their Exchange Server infrastructure. The Exchange Application Management Pack for Microsoft:registered: Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 manages the performance of Windows:registered: 2000 Server's Active Directory:tm: service, Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000, as well as other Microsoft mission-critical business applications, helping Exchange administrators identify and resolve issues before end users ever notice a disruption in service.

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More Than 140 Adapters for BizTalk Server 2000

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that there are more than 140 adapters available for Microsoft:registered: BizTalk:tm: Server 2000 that connect to more than 70 applications and technologies. By January the number of adapters will reach at least 160, the company said. Leading adapter vendors Actional Corp., iWay Software, Pixel USA Inc., RioLabs Inc. and Taviz Technology Inc. created these adapters for BizTalk Server 2000, allowing customers to more easily connect to disparate technologies and applications from companies such as Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., SAP AG and Siebel Systems Inc. Microsoft also is developing its own adapters for SAP and IBM MQSeries that will be available by the end of the year.

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Microsoft Announces Availability of the BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of the Microsoft:registered: BizTalk:tm: Accelerator for HIPAA, a solution designed to address the requirement that all covered healthcare organizations be able to submit and receive HIPAA-compliant transactions by Oct. 16, 2002. Microsoft made the announcement at the Windows on Healthcare VII conference sponsored by the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group.

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BizTalk Server Accelerator for RosettaNet

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Microsoft Corp., one of the founding members of the RosettaNet consortium, today announced the general availability of its BizTalk:tm: Server Accelerator for RosettaNet. In addition, Microsoft's accelerator was used by several companies to establish RosettaNet connections with their trading partners at Intel Corp.'s RosettaNet Interoperability Fest held last month in Taiwan. Built on top of Microsoft:registered: BizTalk Server 2000, the Accelerator for RosettaNet provides the software adapters and server platform needed to rapidly implement RosettaNet solutions that will integrate applications and supply-chain partners and enable the orchestration of complex, collaborative business processes.

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Microsoft Announces .NET Alerts Preview

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the preview of its .NET Alerts Service, which will make it easy for consumers to receive relevant information from Web sites such as auction bid updates, stock quotes, travel changes and bank transaction notifications, based on the customer’s control and consent. As part of the preview, eBay, MSN:registered: Carpoint:tm: online automotive service and CNBC on MSN Money have deployed .NET Alerts today and more than 20 companies will begin offering the Microsoft:registered: .NET Alerts Service to their customers in the near future.

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Siebel 7 and the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server

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Microsoft Corp. and Siebel Systems Inc., the world's leading provider of e-business applications software, today at Siebel Worldwide User Week 2001 announced the integration of Siebel 7 and the Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 Server and the various products in the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family. Siebel 7, the latest version of Siebel eBusiness Applications, supports the Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft SQL Server:tm: 2000, and provides integration with other Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers such as Microsoft Exchange Server and BizTalk:tm: Server 2000. Via Microsoft's platform, Siebel 7 provides global enterprise organizations with a highly reliable, scalable and manageable solution for building customer satisfaction and loyalty while maximizing revenue.

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Microsoft's Enterprise Strategy Built on ....

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.... Scalability, Manageability Of Windows 2000 Server

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its strategy for the evolution of enterprise computing, one that builds on the company's family of manageable, ultrascalable Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: Server software and includes plans for pretested and validated computer infrastructures and XML-based Web services, at MEC 2001, the Microsoft infrastructure planning and deployment conference.

Cliff Reeves, vice president for the Windows .NET Server Solutions Group at Microsoft, outlined the strategy during today's keynote speech, highlighting how Windows 2000 Server software is setting benchmarks for scalability and enabling even the largest businesses and other enterprises to handle their increased server needs.

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Microsoft Announces New MSDN Subscription Service Offerings

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Microsoft Corp. today announced pricing and availability for two new levels of subscription services to the MSDN:registered: developer program that will provide its most important customers -- developers -- with the information and software they need to successfully build XML Web services and applications. Now every level of Microsoft:registered: Visual Studio:registered: .NET has a corresponding level of MSDN subscriptions, providing developers with a clear path from the tools to the services that will make them successful.

MSDN now offers five subscription levels, each tailored to suit the varying needs of professional developers. Through the priority access feature, subscribers to MSDN will continue to be the first to receive the latest Microsoft products, such as Visual Studio .NET, server and operating system technologies and product information. Subscribers to the new Operating Systems level and above received the highly anticipated Microsoft Windows:registered: XP operating system on Sept. 24, more than a month before its scheduled Oct. 25 availability in retail stores.

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CinemaNow Announces Debut of Windows 2000-Based ....

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.... PatchBay, First Licensable System for Delivering Video on Demand

CinemaNow Inc., the leading video-on-demand distributor of feature films over the Internet, today announced the immediate availability of PatchBay:tm:, the first fully integrated technology solution that can be licensed by distributors to launch their own Web-based video-on-demand networks. PatchBay, a solution owned by CinemaNow, is built on the Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 operating system, including support for Windows Media:tm: Audio and Video and digital rights management. It is the first complete and licensable video-on-demand solution that makes it possible for distributors to quickly establish a Web presence, turning film rights into profit without investing in costly development and implementation.

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Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 Helps Bring African Safari to the Web

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that AfriCam, one of the world's first converged interactive media businesses, has implemented the Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 operating system and Commerce Server 2000 as its e-commerce solution and has seen increased scalability and a lowered total cost of ownership. The AfriCam site, http://www.africam.com/, was originally based on Art Technology Group and Oracle software and ran on Sun Microsystems and Linux servers, but AfriCam found that solution costly and unable to scale enough to meet its needs, so it switched to the Microsoft .NET Platform.

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Enterprise Application Providers Meet Rigorous Certification Standards ....

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.... For Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

REDMOND, Wash. -- Sept. 26, 2001 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that leading enterprise independent software vendors (ISVs) have completed rigorous stress-tests to ensure optimal performance and scale for the complete range of hardware and software configurations qualified by the Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: Datacenter Program. Business-critical applications from BMC Software Inc., CommVault Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft, NetIQ Corp., NSI Software, Onyx Software Corp., SAP AG and VERITAS Software have met intensive testing requirements to achieve the Certified for Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server status, as granted by independent third-party test lab VeriTest.

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SQL Server Postpone User Conference Set for Sept. 19

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REDMOND, Wash. -- Sept. 13, 2001 - Microsoft Corp. and the organizers of PASS 2001 North America are deeply saddened by the horrific events that took place on Sept. 11, 2001. It is a tragedy that certainly challenges everyone's ability to conduct their daily lives for the next few weeks and will forever affect the way everyone feels about the world around them.

PASS, as a community, has no doubt been affected by these events. In light of this extraordinary situation, along with its logistical ramifications, Microsoft and PASS believe it is appropriate to postpone PASS 2001 North America, which was to be held Sept. 19-22, 2001, in Orlando, Fla.

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Microsoft Announces Windows Datacenter Server LE

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Microsoft Corp. today announced Windows:registered: Datacenter Server Limited Edition as the next installment in the Windows family of servers. As part of the Microsoft:registered: Windows Datacenter Program, Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition is for customers that require their server operating environment to provide enhanced levels of database performance and scalability in single-server machines operating with 16 or more processors.

Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition continues to build on the great enterprise-class features and functionality we introduced in Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, said Cliff Reeves, vice president of the Windows .NET Server Solutions Group at Microsoft. We made a commitment to our enterprise customers to develop cost-effective products that meet the high levels of performance, scalability, reliability and serviceability they demand. Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition further delivers on this promise.

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Chemical Companies Increasing Productivity With BizTalk Server 2000

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Today at ISA 2001, the annual conference of the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society, Microsoft Corp. announced the Microsoft:registered: BizTalk:tm: Server 2000 CIDX Software Development Kit (SDK). The BizTalk SDK will provide chemical companies with a powerful solution enabling rapid integration of applications, platforms and businesses within and across organizational boundaries, using the chemical industry’s core XML protocols developed by the Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX).

Chem eStandards reduce the time, cost and complexity of making XML-based connections, said Patricia Simmons, executive director of CIDX. Active participation of software suppliers such as Microsoft is critical to the success of Chem eStandards.

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Ahead Software ReWrites CD Recording Future Again with ....

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.... with Full Integration of mp3PRO. Thanks CestLaVie.

KARLSBAD, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2001--Ahead Software AG has now upgraded its world leading CD/DVD Recording application Nero 5.5 with full support for mp3PRO.

mp3PRO is the next generation of the World's most popular audio compression format, MP3. Developed by Coding Technologies and launched by Thomson multimedia (Paris Sicovam: 18453) (NYSE: TMS - news), the mp3PRO digital audio codec has complete backward compatibility with MP3, and improves compression rates and overall audio quality with files that are half the size of the original MP3 data.

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Microsoft Office Keyboard Powers Up on Productivity

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Raising the bar on computing efficiency, Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the new Microsoft:registered: Office Keyboard, the company’s most significant keyboard advancement since 1994 when the split-design, ergonomic Natural:registered: Keyboard Elite was introduced.

The Office Keyboard is designed to streamline tasks and increase overall desktop efficiency and productivity with key innovations, including a left-side Single Touch Pad that encourages users to compute with both hands concurrently. This unique feature includes a scroll wheel, Cut, Copy and Paste Hot Keys, and an application toggle switch.

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Audigy Processor Powers EAX ADVANCED HD

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Creative, the worldwide leader in digital entertainment products for the PC and the Internet, introduces the next-generation Audigy:tm: audio processor and EAX:registered: ADVANCED HD:tm:, two core elements of Creative's future audio developments.

The new Audigy processor boasts four times the effects processing power of Creative Technology's famed EMU10K1:tm: processor, which powers the industry-leading Sound Blaster:registered: Live!:tm: brand of PC audio cards. Its dedicated design makes it uniquely capable of executing the complex audio algorithms required to produce higher fidelity reverb and effects, as well as powering advanced 3D audio imaging for games, music and home studio productions.

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Content Management Server 2001

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of the enterprise, evaluation and developer editions of Microsoft:registered: Content Management Server 2001. Content Management Server 2001 is the Web content management system that enables businesses to quickly and efficiently build, deploy and maintain highly dynamic Internet, intranet and extranet Web sites and is the latest addition to the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family.

Customers looking for a content management product built for the Microsoft platform now have a clear choice, said Chris Atkinson, vice president of the .NET Enterprise Solutions Group at Microsoft. We are extremely excited to bring this high-quality product to a worldwide market, making it easier for customers to quickly and cost-effectively build and deploy dynamic Web sites.

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Microsoft's Silicon Valley Speaker Series...

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...to Highlight .NET Business Opportunities With XML Web Services

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- July 26, 2001 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that its next installation of the Silicon Valley Speaker Series, scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 2, will focus on the business benefits of building XML Web services on the Microsoft:registered: .NET Platform. Barry Goffe, group product manager of the .NET Enterprise Solutions Group at Microsoft, will discuss how the .NET Platform can help businesses build and deploy XML Web services and will detail some of the business opportunities that XML Web services present to enterprises. The presentation also will highlight customers that have built XML Web services using .NET Enterprise Server technology and the successes they have had with it. In addition, Goffe will examine how the next generations of .NET Enterprise Servers will continue to evolve and more deeply integrate with the .NET Platform, thanks to significant financial investment from Microsoft in its server family.

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