MICROSOFT's launch of Windows Server 2003 has delivered a platform that both broadens its reach and sinks the hooks of its desktop franchise deeper into enterprise-class glasshouse IT environments.
The launch of Windows Server 2003 into "the datacentre space" was "one of the most significant pieces of work we've ever done", Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said at the San Francisco launch.
Microsoft has been building momentum in the corporate IT market since it hired a team of operating system code wizards from the now-defunct Digital Equipment Corp in the late eighties and put them to work designing a bomb-proof 32-bit business server platform.
That work was largely complete, Mr Ballmer said.
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