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Microsoft is not alone in seeing the Web as the ultimate means of delivering applications and services, so it is keen to establish its own strategy - the .NET way - for putting it all in place.

The idea is to help provide software developers with a reference source. Advice and examples of best-practice will be available on the site, along with newsgroups for peer-group discussion. It is aimed at ISVs (independent software vendors) that are Microsoft Certified Partners.

"There will be a tremendous opportunity for ISVs around building software as a service over the next three to five years," said Rosa Garcia, general manager of partner programs at Microsoft. "There is a whole new emerging opportunity for building incremental revenues with their existing applications as well as in learning tangible ways to build on the vision for .NET and .NET services. This global community is one of many resources we will be delivering to help ISVs and developers migrate to the software-as-a-service model."

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