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While Microsoft mulls its broadband strategy for MSN, America Online launched its first volley in the space on Monday.

AOL is rolling out a new campaign aimed at increasing its visibility in the broadband space. As part of this new "Welcome to the World Wide Wow" initiative, AOL is currently beta testing a new version of its client, dubbed America Online 8.0 Plus, which brings AOL to par many of the features in MSN 8. The updated AOL software is set to be released on March 31.

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ORLANDO - Microsoft is out to convince software vendors that they should join 'em, rather than try to beat 'em.

Microsoft has kicked off at the start of March a road show designed, ultimately, to get independent software vendors (ISVs) to build into their future products so they embed some or all of Microsoft's underlying software stack. Microsoft is providing attendees with a two-day strategy and product roadmap, emphasizing the Microsoft Business Solutions' small- and mid-size business products.

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Despite recent claims to the contrary, there may be a Windows server operating system code-named Longhorn after all, a Microsoft executive said Tuesday. Just last November, Microsoft officials said that the next major Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, would be a client-only release.

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At a speech at the Microsoft Mobility Developer conference in New Orleans, Gates gave details about the company's tools for building applications that run on handheld devices. Microsoft hopes the software will entice developers, particularly those in corporations, to write customized business applications using Microsoft's Pocket PC and Smartphone operating systems.

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Microsoft on Tuesday announced new software intended to ease the management of business PCs and servers. The Redmond, Wash.-based company announced details of the new product, called System Center, during a company-sponsored conference in Las Vegas.

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Microsoft on Monday said it will partner with Comverse Technology to offer voicemail message notification technology through its .Net Alerts service, another deal to bolster the software giant's mobile communications push.

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On Monday, Microsoft plans to kick off the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) conference in New Orleans by announcing the addition of another wireless device maker, Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion, to the list of those developing phones using its advanced phone software.

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Microsoft is preparing an April Fools' Day announcement that's no joke. The company plans to change how it licenses the majority of server software, which could significantly reduce a company's cost of running large, multiprocessor servers.

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Redmond is expected to unveil plans for new server developed with AT&T Wireless at next week's Mobility Developer Conference.

At the Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference in New Orleans next week, Microsoft is expected to provide an update and possibly beta code for its Microsoft Enterprise Location Server (MELS) product.

Microsoft and AT&T Wireless offered a first demo of MELS in September last year. The pair showed how Microsoft's .Net technologies, such as the .Net Compact Framework and XML Web Services, like MapPoint.Net, could be combined with AT&T's wireless service to provide a development platform for location-aware applications.

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As it had promised, Microsoft on Wednesday said it will add support in Windows for the recently approved iSCSI storage standard, which allows storage networks to be built using existing Ethernet networks.

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