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[DMK: Timing is everything?]
Source: Government Computer News via another list:
>
>September 6, 1999
>FIPS security nod is coming for Windows NT
>MONTGOMERY, Ala.-Microsoft Corp. president Steve Ballmer said that
Windows
>NT 4.0 will receive security certification under Federal Information
>Processing Standard 140-1 by the end of next month.
>The approval by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
will
>cover NT's Internet Information Server, Outlook and Internet Explorer
5.0
>components.
>The forthcoming Service Pack 6 for NT 4.0 will contain the
FIPS-evaluated
>code, Ballmer said.
>In a keynote speech at the Air Force Information Technology
Conference,
>Ballmer acknowledged that key Microsoft products were lagging in the
FIPS
>security certification process.
>He said in an interview that Microsoft's federal group "needed a
senior R&D
>leader to eat, drink and breathe federal issues" such as FIPS
certification,
>and that he had directed the company to find such a person.
>The outspoken Ballmer used the Air Force conference to take a shot at
Java,
>the development language touted by Microsoft rival Sun Microsystems
Inc. He
>predicted that the Extensible Markup Language, not Java, will be
viewed as
>"the biggest architectural revolution of the late 1990s."
>Microsoft developers see XML as the "core to all future product
functions,"
>he said.
>Tool talk
>He said the company will deliver a tool called Biztalk designed to
let
>developers create an XML framework as a universal information
exchange
>medium for components.
>
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