With Microsoft's long-awaited .Net Server operating system inching closer to official release, the Redmond, Wash., company's two-year quest to construct a Microsoft-dominated world of Web services moved closer to reality. Combined with its February rollout of the Visual Studio.Net development toolset and the earlier release of the .Net Framework, the .Net Server is meant to serve as the third major plank of Microsoft's .Net Web services strategy. Introducing the Windows.Net server yesterday, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates tabbed Microsoft's Web services effort "a tremendous foundation for breakthrough work in many areas."
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