Microsoft, Bank One ink services pact
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Bank One, the nation's sixth-biggest bank holding company, has struck a $30 million deal to use Microsoft products and services, giving a boost to the software giant's emerging Internet services and business products, the companies said Friday. The three-year deal calls for Bank One to use Microsoft's .Net technology to build services that could, for example, deliver account billing or investment data to customers over a variety of devices, executives said. Bank One also will promote Microsoft's Great Plains software for small businesses as well as its bCentral Web site that offers Internet-based services for small companies, they said.