Digital Broadcast Manager (DBM) is a toolkit for building commercial Web sites that distribute digital audio and video in Microsoft's Windows Media Format
CheckFree has bought the TransPoint electronic bill presentment and payment service in a stock transaction valued at more than US$1 billion
Liquid Audio will add support for Windows Media Technologies (WMT) throughout its music distribution services
Microsoft invested US$50 million in Gilat-To-Home, a satellite-based Internet access service
Microsoft recently invested in two companies that host Web sites using Microsoft products
Microsoft invested in ITRAN Communications, a manufacturer of power-line network hardware that enables PCs and devices to network by plugging into electric power outlets
45-page paper describes various ways that complex multi-machine Web sites can be constructed within Microsoft's Windows Distributed interNet Applications (DNA) framework
Dramatically more demanding than previous Windows logo programs, this one aims to improve the reliability of Windows 2000 by running all candidate applications through a set of rigorous certification tests
Developers can now download version 2 of the BizTalk Jumpstart Toolkit
Microsoft Systems Journal (MSJ) and the Microsoft Internet Developer (MIND) magazines merged into MSDN Magazine