BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : DECEMBER 11, 2000 ISSUE
BUSINESS WEEK E.BIZ -- COVER STORY Still King of the Hill Microsoft (MSFT) remains the world's largest software maker. Here are key pieces of its strategy for maintaining dominance as technology shifts to the Web: OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE: Many companies say Microsoft's Windows operating system can't handle the biggest Net jobs. Its new, industrial-strength Windows 2000 software could make it a viable choice. NET STANDARDS: Microsoft is changing its proprietary ways to back the open standards of the Net. It promotes programming language XML, which links products, prices, and other info. PARTNERS: The software giant has persuaded such hotshot Web software companies as Commerce One to develop their e-commerce applications on Windows. PRICING: Microsoft bundles several software products together in moderately priced packages, which is tough for rivals to compete with. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					e.biz Contents for Dec. 11, 2000 issue RELATED ITEMS The New Software Whizzes TABLE: Software's Brash Upstarts CHART: The Upstarts Are Growing Fast...Boosting Their Stock Performance... TABLE: ...And Winning Buy Recommendations GRAPHIC: i2 Technologies Snapshot GRAPHIC: Vignette Snapshot GRAPHIC: BEA Systems Snapshot GRAPHIC: Ariba Snapshot GRAPHIC: BroadVision Snapshot Microsoft's Little Bro' TABLE: Still King of the Hill ONLINE ORIGINAL: A Hill of Beans That Could Have Buried BroadVision ONLINE ORIGINAL: How E.piphany Gets Them to See the Light ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with BEA's William Coleman ONLINE ORIGINAL: Q&A with Commerce One's Mark Hoffman INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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