Today at Microsoft® Tech•Ed, Paul Flessner, senior vice president of the Windows Server System™ Division at Microsoft Corp., announced that in its next fiscal year Microsoft will invest more than $1.7 billion in research and development in Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft’s family of server software, and $450 million in community-based efforts that support information technology (IT) professionals and developers, all in an effort to amplify the strategic impact of IT. During his opening keynote address at Tech•Ed 2003, Flessner told the audience that these investments will decrease the ongoing maintenance costs associated with IT, decrease the time IT requires to deliver new business capabilities, and, most important, increase the ability of IT to provide innovative solutions that deliver competitive advantage to business.
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