YOU CAN CALL Jeff Raikes, Microsoft's group vice president of Productivity and Business Services, just about anything you want, just don't call him a desktop guy. Raikes is charged with the responsibility of guiding Microsoft's enormously successful desktop business -- the jewel of which is Office XP -- into the new era of computing where desktop, server, and peer-to-peer technologies are beginning to all swirl together as a seamless whole. In an interview with Test Center Director Steve Gillmor, Editor at Large Ed Scannell, Test Center Lead Analyst Jon Udell, and News Editor Mark Jones, Raikes discusses Microsoft's .Net strategies, its increasingly important SharePoint Team Services, and how Microsoft's traditionally separate client and server groups are learning to work and play well together.
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