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To: t2 who wrote (29398)	9/13/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: Teflon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft plans new Web-based software - WSJ NEW YORK, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Software giant Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) plans to announce on Monday a new strategy acknowledging that software developers are focusing more on the the Web than on stand-alone computers, the Wall Street Journal reported in Monday's online edition. Under the plan set to be unveiled in San Francisco, Microsoft will offer Web developers the ability to pull technology components from the Redmond, Wash.-based company's MSN Web site, the Journal said. The Journal said the company is calling these components ''megaservices,'' which include an Internet identification and payment technology named Passport. The components will also include the LinkExchange system for exchanging banner adds, the Hotmail and Instant Messenger communication technologies, and Windows Update, a way of sending software upgrades and patches electronically, the paper said. The paper said Microsoft is reorienting all of its products around this new approach called Windows DNA 2000, which the Journal said represents its ''most decisive shift'' away from a personal computer based approach. The Journal said the company will also use a standard technology known as Extensible Markup Language, or XML, which identifies different types of data on Web sites and can be used to automate processes that now must be executed manually. ''It's going to have as profound effect on the investments we make at Microsoft as the Internet did,'' Paul Maritz, group vice president heading Microsoft's relations with software developers told the Journal. ''This is what the company will be about.'' Teflon