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I am back from my trip to seattle. Sorry for the lack of updates during the last week but my internet connection in seattle was quite slow and unstable.

Btw here a photo from the Windows XP daycounter at the Microsoft campus in Redmond

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Microsoft Corp. got a major boost for its .NET business plan today when it signed a strategic partnership deal with QXL ricardo plc that will result in enhanced services for the pan-European online auction operation.

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Thursday the company published three developer related specifications for its .NET initiative. They are the SOAP Routing Protocol (SOAP-RP), XLANG and the Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) protocol. All three can be found on Microsoft´s .NET site for developers, www.gotdotnet.com.

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America Online and Microsoft are in preliminary discussions to revise their long-standing partnership agreement, a move that could see renewed cooperation between the technology giants after a period of apparent discord.

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No sooner had Rick Kelley made the painful decision to migrate his division´s 4,500 desktops from Windows 95 and NT to Windows 2000 than he had to stop and consider Microsoft´s latest, greatest operating system--Windows XP.

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Microsoft has released a new post beta 2 build of Windows XP Home Edition/Professional to the beta testers. This build is only available for electronic download. Thanks Christian.

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In this fast-paced world, the average person spends almost two hours each day poring through their e-mail and calendar, making it challenging to access and communicate with others effectively. With the new Microsoft:registered: Outlook:registered: 2002 messaging and collaboration client, Exchange Server customers get the newest release so they can better manage their e-mail and personal information, while making it easier to share and create information with others.

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Today, Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft:registered: SQL Server:tm: 2000 is the leading database on the Windows NT:registered: and Windows:registered: platforms, according to preliminary results released by Gartner Dataquest. The report indicates that SQL Server gained 38 percent of new database license sales on the Windows NT Server platform, up from 35 percent in 1999. In contrast, the nearest competitor had 37 percent on Windows NT Server, a 3 percent decrease from 1999. In addition, database sales for the Windows NT platform segment grew a total of 34 percent, twice that of the 17 percent growth experienced by UNIX RDBMS (relational database management systems).

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Microsoft Corp. today announced two powerful new additions to its Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: operating system family, built for the forthcoming Intel:registered: Itanium:tm: 64-bit processor. The new versions of the Windows operating system for servers and workstations will support the most demanding scientific and technical applications, and massive enterprise and e-commerce applications, as well as the most popular business applications.

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