Next Generation Strategy:  Microsoft.net

• Distributed Web Strategy

• Core Technology is XML

• New language C# similar to Java with more C++ type stuff

• Instead of sales they want to rent or lease (subscribe?).

•     (Is this so different from the present buy/upgrade strategy?)

• Handheld and wireless strategy is weak so far.

• The government is still a large potential factor.

• Microsoft and Sun settle Java suit: Yahoo Account
  Microsoft abandons Java

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