Netdocs - MS Next Big Thing

Everyone is talking about Microsoft's Netdocs, slated to be one of its showcase products in the next year. The News.com article reports that though Microsoft will not discuss it publicly, nor is it said to be in either alpha or beta testing, the service should debut sometime in 2001, and be big. Sources at Microsoft told News.com the new .Net service is a ".Net application/service for knowledge workers."

According to the article, the sources also told News.com "Netdocs is a single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including email, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging." And Netdocs will not be a retail software package, but rather hostly soley over the Internet as a service.

The user interface will be completely new, the workspace being XML-based so that all applications will be available at the same time. Some say the new technology could totally change the way customers interact and handle many tasks.

Netdocs comes out of the competition Microsoft breeds at its Redmond Campus where teams work on individual projects, the winner being chosen by MS elite. One of the most heated of said competitions is between the Netdocs crew and the Office crew.

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