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John Fielding,
CEO
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Microsoft's announcement Thursday that it will pay its first dividend ever signals that the software giant is growing up _ and may be hard-pressed to repeat the stock leaps and revenue gains of its youth, analysts said.
John Connors, Microsoft's chief financial officer, cautioned that the company sees no immediate upturn in technology spending.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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For an order granting permanent injunctive relief as may be reasonably necessary or appropriate to eliminate the effects of Microsoft's violations of the antitrust laws and to restore effective competition in the computer software industry.
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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Microsoft's software development experience as well as the experience of Bonner and Moore has shown that a tiered, component-based solution approach to client/server development has many advantages over traditional application architectures.
Using Internet programming languages such as Macromedia Allaire ColdFusion and Microsoft's ASP it is possible to add so much functionality to your site that it becomes a function in itself.
There are visual tools for various languages, as well as massive systems that essentially disguise Microsoft's hundreds of API functions by overlaying them with macros and additional functions.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Servo Web allows you to install Microsoft's FrontPage Extensions on your account.
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Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer
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You should see a gold lock on Microsoft's Internet Explorer or a blue key on Netscape - this indicates that the browser is in secure mode.
Microsoft's MSN service features both directory listings and search engine results, powered by Inktomi.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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One positive indicator for the year is Microsoft's recent announcement that it will end support for Windows 98 and Windows NT - a move that should spur more PC buying this year.
The money is made selling tools, selling core technologies, and selling Microsoft's own applications that run on the platform.
Other ECP functions are available with some devices if they use Microsoft's ECP standard.
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