Microsoft unifies stack behind Web Services
InternetNews | at | by Mike
With the release of Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 on April 24, Microsoft will bring two of the final pieces of its .NET vision into play. Office 2003, slated for release later this year, and the release of 'Yukon,' a forthcoming version of SQL Server, will complete the stack of XML-geared software, which also includes Microsoft's previously released Windows XP.
Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 (previously known as 'Everett') are tightly integrated as part of Microsoft's plan to create a cohesive ecosystem on which businesses can build their Web services. Windows Server 2003 fully leverages the .NET Framework, the platform infrastructure that defines Microsoft's Web services push. Meanwhile, Visual Studio .NET 2003 is an incremental advancement to the company's integrated development environment (IDE), a developer tool suite which at its core contains the vision of enabling development teams to share in large-scale projects across the entire development life cycle, even when mixing components of various languages and using a variety of deployment architectures, from the Internet to Windows to mobile devices.