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Customers looking forward to Windows:registered: XP can purchase a new "Windows XP Ready PC" today that meets the system requirements for the new operating system, allowing them to upgrade to Windows XP the day it ships, thanks to the Windows XP Ready PC Program. Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp., eMachines Inc., Equus Computer Systems, Gateway Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., KDS Computers, MicronPC, Northgate Computers, Premio Computer Inc., Sony, Systemax Inc. and Toshiba are current PC manufacturers offering Windows XP Ready PCs worldwide today. The complete list of Windows XP Ready PCs worldwide can be viewed online at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/ready/.

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Delivers Final Beta Versions of .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET and Announces Features and Naming for Windows .NET Server

ATLANTA - June 19, 2001 -- In his keynote address to corporate customers and partners at TechEd 2001, Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., rallied attendees by predicting an explosion of XML Web services that will revolutionize the way developers build, deploy and integrate applications. In particular, Gates called attention to the significance of the 10th anniversary of Microsoft:registered: Visual Basic:registered:, the world´s most widely used programming language, by announcing the final beta versions of Visual Studio:registered:.NET, including Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft´s development ecosystem for XML Web services, which are immediately available.

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Today at Microsoft Tech· Ed 2001, Paul Flessner, senior vice president of the .NET Enterprise Server Division at Microsoft Corp., announced the public availability of Microsoft:registered: Mobile Information 2001 Server, a mobile applications server that extends Exchange Server information, corporate intranet applications and services to mobile users. Flessner was joined on the podium by Chico Jayanthan, director of Products and Services, Global Platform and Internet Services at Vodafone US, representing Vodafone UK, a participant in Microsoft´s Joint Development Program for products based on Microsoft Mobile Information Server (MIS). Earlier today, Vodafone UK announced the commercial availability of corporate wireless services powered by Mobile Information Server.

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At Tech· Ed 2001, Microsoft Corp. today took its enterprise strategy to the next level with the release of Microsoft:registered: Mobile Information 2001 Server, the first public demonstration of Content Management Server, and the announcement that the Microsoft SQL Server:tm: business has now surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue. In addition, in his keynote address, Paul Flessner, senior vice president of the .NET Enterprise Server Division at Microsoft, showed a sold out audience of developers a host of enterprise customer wins highlighting the business value of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers and XML Web services deployed today on the .NET platform.

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Microsoft will release Beta 2 versions of its .Net Framework and Visual Studio.Net at the TechEd developers conference later this week.

Visual Studio.Net will include software modelling and database modelling features, support for Unified Modelling Language 1.2, templates and frameworks for building and deploying web services, and customisable tools for testing the scalability and functionality of web services.

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During a phone call, Microsoft Windows group Vice President Jim Allchin and America Online Time Warner President Ray Oglethorpe agreed they could not resolve the key issue that had stalled discussions, said sources familiar with the matter. An agreement would have guaranteed the AOL software would ship with XP as it has with every other version Windows released in the past five years.

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As Microsoft puts the finishing touches on an upgrade to its popular browser, Internet advertising companies are racing to ensure that their ads and cookies are compatible with it.

Internet Explorer 6, scheduled to be released in August, will be the first browser to support a new privacy standard called Platform Privacy Preferences, or P3P.

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The Windows XP Preview Program is now available in UK and germany.

The UK Windows XP Preview Program include 1 update to the beta product version and the final 120-day evaluation version when released. The german Windows XP Preview Program include only Windows XP RC1.

Update: The Preview Program is also availble in the Netherlands (Thanks Leen) and New Zealand (Thanks James)

Preview Program (UK)
Preview Program (Germany)
Preview Program (Netherlands)
Preview Program (New Zealand)