Today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2001, Microsoft Corp. founder, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced a slew of major deliverables for third-party software developers and highlighted surging developer and partner support for the .NET Platform, Microsoft's next-generation software foundation to connect the world of information, devices and people in a more unified and personalized way. Attendees received release candidate software for the Microsoft® .NET Framework and Visual Studio® .NET as well as technology previews for a wide range of forthcoming .NET technologies. Among the new software development kits delivered are the .NET My Services SDK and the .NET Compact Framework, which brings .NET to a variety of "smart" devices. Gates called on developers to use these tools to create a new generation of distributed applications built on XML Web services.
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