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Microsoft Unveils Programming Tools That Are Key to .Net Strategy.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2002
By Kristi Heim, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 13--SEATTLE--Two years ago when Microsoft started talking about becoming the architect of a new networked world, many observers dismissed its plan, dubbed .Net, as "vaporware." Today, Microsoft begins selling the first product that could turn its blueprints into reality -- the virtual hammers and nails to build it.
Aimed at software developers, the new set of programming tools called Visual Studio.Net will get an official launch by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today in San Francisco.
The company whose software runs 90 percent of the world's personal computers now intends to run a vast array of integrated services over the Web. Web services, as...
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