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The New Battlefield
The network is really the computer, uh, market
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The desktop and selling PC software isn't it any more.
Microsoft's .Net Next Generation Internet initiative, unveiled in June 2000,
declared that Microsoft got the net, and it wants to get it all.
The antitrust case, with its ruling a scant two months
earlier that Microsoft abused its monopoly position,
is but an annoyance on the road to the great digital destiny.
Where Microsoft Office and Visual Basic were once the beachheads,
the new frontier includes, among other things,
digital photography, music and video players, games, instant messaging,
and consumer purchases.
Microsoft's products and initiatives are
extending from the office and the administrative
into every day life,
from work into play and, well, everything else.
We know about Xbox and Chrome, but what is ICSA?
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Introducing Microsoft .NET
by David S. Platt, Keith Ballinger
Microsoft Press, 05/2001
ISBN: 073561377X
Microsoft's in-depth intro to its .NET platform. One just
has to wonder about the meaning of the ominous-looking
anvil on the front cover...
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Deploying and Managing Microsoft .NET Web Farms
by Barry Bloom
Sams, 06/2001
ISBN: 0672320576
720-page soup-to-nuts guide to software and hardware required for .NET
e-commerce deployment. Professionals only, don't try this at home.
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Microsoft: The Good, the Bad and the .NET
Zona Research Inc, 2001
ASIN: B00005MCQ5
Zona internet business review covers .NET and the Hailstorm set of services, wherefore, why, and will it work. The business of writing about it works
at $395 a copy.
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Mastering ICQ: The Official Guide
by Peter Weverka
Hungry Minds, Inc, 12/2000
ISBN: 0764535196
In 1998 AOL bought a small Israeli company with little revenue but
millions of users. Since then the ICQ has grown to 50 million strong and
Microsoft wants in with, what else, an open instant messaging standard.
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The Book of IRC: The Ultimate Guide to Internet Relay Chat
by Alex Charalabidis
No Starch Pr, 12/1999
ISBN: 1886411298
Before ICQ, there was IRC, the quirky IM system that never really
shed its geek following.
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Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 Handbook
by Seth McEvoy
Microsoft Press, 10/2000
ISBN: 0735611785
For those who don't want to just turn on the music.
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Inside Windows Media: Learn to Combine Video, Audio, and Still Images to Create Streaming Media
by Seth McEvoy
Que, 09/1999
ISBN: 0789722259
For those who want to be behind the camera.
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Learn Computer Game Programming with DirectX 7.0
by Ian Parberry
Wordware Publishing, 08/2000
ISBN: 1556227418
And for those who want to have at the audience interactively.
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Renegades of the Empire: How Three Software Warriors Started a Revolution Behind the Walls of Fortress Microsoft
by Michael Drummond
Crown Pub, 12/1999
ISBN: 0609604163
The story behind the DirectX game technology: no Virginia, Microserfs aren't
always 'droids.
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Professional Biztalk
by Scott Woodgate, Stephen F. Mohr
Wrox Press Inc, 01/2001
ISBN: 1861003293
Nitty gritty details on the XML-based protocols that facilitate e-commerce in fictional Bob's Bolts Company.
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