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RESPONDING TO THE growing popularity of server appliances, Microsoft plans to roll out a dedicated Web server in next year's first quarter as part of its upcoming Windows .NET Server Family, according to a source close to Microsoft.

Called the Windows .NET Web Server, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft hopes the product can cash in on corporate users' increasing interest in appliance servers -- lower end, turnkey systems dedicated to performing specific tasks -- as well as stop some of the momentum Linux competitors have built in this market, the source said.

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