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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