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To: XiaoYao who wrote (12197)	11/11/1998 5:31:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Respond to of 74651

NTT Data/Microsoft -2: To Be Operational In Apr >J.NDC By David P. Hamilton 11/11/98 Dow Jones News Service (Copyright (c) 1998, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) - TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will provide its Windows CE operating system to NTT Data Corp. (J.NDC or 9613) for use in Japanese credit-card authentication terminals, a Microsoft official in Japan said. The deal marks the first time Microsoft has succeeded in placing Windows CE in a credit-card application, said Kota Sakino, Microsoft's marketing manager for Windows CE in Japan. NTT Data, which holds roughly three-quarters of the authentication-terminal market in Japan, will replace its current proprietary terminals with new devices running Windows CE. Use of the Microsoft operating system will allow NTT Data to easily upgrade its system and to add new functions such as the ability to handle cash-card transactions. NTT Data plans to test the system in January, and to roll it out in April. "Windows CE is very flexible and very appropriate for future upgrades of the system," Sakino said. The new authentication terminals "will enable them to (easily) add new features and applications...It is a significant difference from their existing system." The deal is significant for Microsoft's efforts to push Windows CE, a stripped-down version of its Windows personal-computer operating system, into new markets. Microsoft has so far succeeded in arranging for Windows CE to be used in such diverse products as a new video-game machine by Sega Enterprises Ltd. (J.SEL or 7964), point-of-sale terminals, factory machinery and some health-care products.