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The questions are based on Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server 2003, Standard Edition, as well as your company’s operating environment. Many of the questions require specialized knowledge of regulatory requirements, architecture, existing network infrastructure, system administration policies, security, and business plans. It may require the involvement of subject matter experts to answer many of the questions.

We will be creating an advisory group to influence the future Live Communication Server product decisions. The group will be constructed principally from individuals nominated through this mechanism. We appreciate your providing the names of individuals in your company that are interested in completing area-specific or role-specific questionnaires. If you desire to nominate several different subject matter specialists, we provide a nomination form near the beginning of the survey. Individuals that provide actionable feedback will be provided a legacy Real Time Communication Server USB Drive. If you are not the appropriate subject mater expert, please forward this survey invite to the appropriate individual within your company and request that they signup for the appropriate areas and associated surveys. For your convenience, we will forward a text copy of the survey to you tomorrow.

Thank you for your participation in the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003, Standard Edition pre-release process.

Live Communications Team

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Gates: What Will the PC Look Like in 2006?
Chairman Bill Gates is carefully avoiding pinning a date on Longhorn in his PDC kick-off keynote. But he is talking about what the personal computer will look like in 2006 (hint, hint). Gates says to expect the 2006 PC to feature a four to six GHz CPU (with two cores); memory of 2+ GB; disk of 1+ TB; graphics processors with three times the performance of those today; and Net speeds of 1Gb broadband and/or 54 Mb wireless.