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Microsoft plans to muscle into two markets next year, work flow and enterprise content management, using its time-tested techniques of exploiting its desktop dominance and appealing to developers.
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The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
The IT industry's best kept secret is out -- SAP is still up for grabs despite spurning its first suitor, Microsoft.
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