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Charles Stevens, Corporate VP, Enterprise Storage Division, Microsoft Corp.: Page 3 of 16

— Mary Jander, Site Editor, Byte and Switch

Byte and Switch: Can you describe Microsoft's storage strategy?

Stevens: Well, the Enterprise Storage Division was established in January 2002, headed up by Bob Muglia. It's two years old and part of the Servers and Tools Division... Now Bob heads up the Windows Server Division, which includes servers, storage, and management. I report to Bob; Bob reports to Eric Rudder.

Byte and Switch: What are the key products in Microsoft's storage strategy? How did they evolve?

Stevens: Originally we had Windows NT, and there were several versions, and that was replaced by Windows 2000 in February of 2000... The code base from NT and 2000 became XP and part of Windows Server 2003. After that came out in April 2003, we released Windows Storage Server 2003 in June.