Microsoft releases beefed-up content manager
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft on Tuesday released the first beta of Content Management Server (CMS) 2002, which features support for XML-based Web services, improved content authoring, and tighter integration with Visual Studio .Net programming environment and support for ASP.Net. One of the technical highlights of the new release is the Authoring Connector for Office XP, which allows users to generate and contribute content for a Web site from within the suite of Office applications. In doing so, Microsoft officials believe the adoption of solutions can be speeded up. The upcoming product's support for Web services makes it possible for users to expose content and functions of the server as Web services. This makes it simpler for users to integrate Web sites and content residing on other server-based applications regardless of the programming language used to build them.