Barnstorming the country, Microsoft Corp. today made a number of product and industry announcements at different events dedicated to XML Web Services. In keynote presentations at XML DevCon Spring 2001 in New York City and at Web Services World and the W3C Workshop on Web Services in San Jose, Calif., Microsoft executives this week debuted a new SOAP Toolkit, announced native SOAP support for the Microsoft Windows XP operating system, invited SOAP developers to an interoperability event, confirmed acceptance of the jointly authored XML key management specification (XKMS) digital certificate specification by the World Wide Web Consortium and presented a road map for future XML Web Services directions to theW3C Workshop on Web Services.

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