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NETWORKING: We knew it wasn't going to be easy but it has been even harder than we expected to build a position in networking. You will see us backing off on some of the spending level but don't doubt that we are totally committed to the business. Our strategy is to build networking into the operatin system. Some of the services will not be in the same box but they will have been designed, evangelized, implemented and tested as part of each system release. What this means is that we will define operations on and attributes of entities like files, users, machines, mail, printer or services that users or applications can have access to directly inside the system software. Although we will allow connections to different systems we will make ours the easiest to use by bundling some of them and making all of them seamless. Architecting the extensions for these entities including our evolution of the file system and how we tie in with standards like Novell and DCE will be Jim Allchins's responsibility even though the implementation of several of these will be in other parts of the company (for example OS kernels or Mail). We are in a race to define these extensions because Novells' dominance and DCE's popularity could allow them to usurp our role unless we get a strong message, good tools and great implementations done fairly quickly. We will embrace DCE as a weapon agaisnt Novell although we don't know exactly how to relate to DCE quite yet. Our strength will come from Windows, including the advanced implementation based on NT.
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