Microsoft to revamp portal software
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Microsoft plans to announce on Monday revamped software that could make it easier for businesses to build portal Web sites. The software kingpin is updating its SharePoint Portal Server software to support the company's overarching .Net strategy to move computing to the Web. The updated software, slated for availability in the middle of next year, will allow nontechnical employees to build corporate portals on their own without the help of software developers, said Jeff Teper, Microsoft's SharePoint general manager.
With the portal technology built into Windows, different departments within a corporation could easily build individual portal sites for their needs by pointing and clicking on a Web browser, he said. In the past, software programmers would have had the time-consuming task of building the portal sites.