Microsoft and U.K. banks---
quote.bloomberg.com
Microsoft to Tie Up With U.K. Banks for Web Site, Times Says
London, March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, is to start a Web site called the finance channel, through which users can access banking services of at least four big U.K. banks, as it seeks to gain a slice of the Internet banking market expected to have 2.5 million U.K. users by 2002, the Sunday Times reported, citing Microsoft officials. Microsoft will work with the four British clearing banks, Barclays Bank Plc, National Westminster Bank Plc, Lloyds TSB Group Plc and HSBC Holdings Plc and is negotiating with the Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Scotland, Co-Operative Bank, among others, the paper said.
Microsoft, said in an internal memo last week, that it was on track to release its Windows 2000 software in the second half of next year. (Sunday Times 3/21 B2 www.the-times.co.uk)
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