Microsoft Expands Commitment to Open Standards and Interoperability

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Following its announcement last month of the shared source philosophy, Microsoft Corp. today announced it will work with Corel Corp. to build a shared source implementation of the C# programming language and common language infrastructure (CLI) specifications that it submitted to ECMA in October 2000. Designed to be used for academic, research, debugging and learning purposes, this implementation will run on FreeBSD and Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: and will be published as source code under Microsoft´s Shared Source licensing framework.

"First, we took the core Microsoft .NET technologies to the W3C and ECMA standards bodies for standardization. Now, with Corel, we´re creating an implementation under our shared source philosophy," said Craig Mundie, senior vice president of Advanced Strategies at Microsoft. "This shared source implementation of these standards demonstrates Microsoft´s commitment to open standards in .NET and will provide a native XML Web services programming environment across operating systems."

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Microsoft´s XP: Hardware changes a turnoff

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The company´s new product-activation technology, which locks Office XP or Windows XP to a particular PC hardware configuration, can deactivate unexpectedly, rendering the software useless. The feature could present the biggest headache to people that frequently upgrade or change components on their PCs.

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Windows XP Build 2502

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Microsoft has released another build of Windows XP to the beta testers. Note: This is a interim build, Microsoft expect to release RC1 within a week. Thanks Mark.

Exchange is catching up to Lotus and has momentum to overtake it

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Microsoft is catching up to Lotus Development Corp.´s Domino and Notes in corporate messaging and collaboration systems, but the future is murky because of the emergence of Microsoft´s .Net collaboration plans.

Neither Microsoft Exchange nor the product line from Cambridge, Mass.-based Lotus is dominant right now. At last official count, Exchange had about 68 million licensed seats, or users, and Domino had 78 million.

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Viva Windows XP!

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In a city that derives its revenues from playing the odds, Microsoft Corp. today provided the industry with a sure bet: Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: XP. Microsoft and partners from all segments of the industry kicked off a billion-dollar marketing campaign for the next generation of PCs, software and devices that will offer customers the best possible computing experience.

Rick Belluzzo, president and chief operating officer of Microsoft Corp., addressed more than 600 industry leaders at Partner Marketing Day in Las Vegas, sharing Microsoft´s plans for the marketing frenzy behind Microsoft Windows XP and launching an unprecedented campaign for the revolutionary new operating system, including a total of $500 million from Microsoft and Intel Corp. alone to promote Windows XP and Pentium:registered: 4 PCs.

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Stratus debuts delayed Windows server

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High-end-server maker Stratus Technologies will take a step into the low-end market Monday when it introduces its first machine using Intel chips and Microsoft´s Windows 2000 operating system.

Stratus sells high-end, crash-resistant machines for jobs such as running 911 emergency call systems or ATM networks, where the operators can´t afford to have a machine go down. To ensure that its servers are reliable, the company uses carefully tested software and backup hardware components--"redundant" components--that keep running if the primary unit fails.

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Win XP: To upgrade or not to upgrade?

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If I had a couple of bucks for every e-mail I get asking about Windows XP, you wouldn´t be reading this. I´d have enough money to quit writing and live on a beach somewhere.

So to question numero uno, "Should I upgrade to Windows XP?" the answer is "absolutely!"

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Does a snake lurk in Windows XP?

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Last week, at a day-long get-to-know-you session that Microsoft Corp. hosted for venture capitalists, one attendee told a fable in which she compared Microsoft to a snake and asked Microsoft executives to respond. And in an on-the-spot audience poll, only 40 percent of the attendees agreed that the Redmond, Wash., software company would make a good partner for the fledgling companies in their investment portfolios.

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Microsoft Readies 64-Bit Windows

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It´s safe to say that Robert Pennington is happy with Intel´s new 64-bit Itanium processor. As associate director of computing and communications at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, he´s responsible for all the production supercomputing systems, including several new Itanium clusters. "We´ve been able to port 32-bit Windows applications to Itanium by recompiling them, and the performance is outstanding," Pennington says.

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