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Microsoft Outlines ‘Intranet’ Strategy

From Staff And Wire Reports

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday outlined plans to modify the company’s programs and programming tools for businesses to use with so-called “intranets,” internal data networks based on the technical standards of the Internet.

The changes are important for the company to maintain a leading role in software design.

More companies are starting to use the design principle of the World Wide Web, where information on one computer can be linked to another without a cumbersome command, to their internal data systems.

“Intranets will have an immediate and dramatic impact on businesses over the next few years - but this is just the beginning,” Gates told several hundred business executives and industry analysts.