Microsoft previews new Web services specs
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Microsoft on Tuesday took a stab at bolstering the Web-based specifications needed to make Web services more secure, and more attractive to businesses. At a developer's conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced a preview of a new software-development architecture, called the Global XML Web Services Architecture, and previewed four new related specifications that it will submit to standards bodies after a review period. Microsoft did not specify how long the review period will be or which standards body will handle the submission. But the Extensible Markup Language (XML), upon which the new architecture is based, is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. Microsoft said the architecture adheres to a road map outlined by it and IBM this spring at a W3C workshop.