ADVISORY/Tune-Up for Sunday's Microsoft Challenge Doubleheader!News & Assignment Editors/Sports Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday & Thursday (March 15-16) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Self-described "hockey geeks" take to the ice for final practices (Wednesday and Thursday); Microsoft and Seattle Thunderbirds The Seattle Thunderbirds are an ice hockey team in Seattle, Washington that belongs to the Western Hockey League. They play in KeyArena on the Seattle Center campus. The team's logo depicts a Native American carving of a thunderbird with the word "Seattle" etched into it, framed team up to raise $1 million for Ronald McDonald House The Microsoft Challenge takes center stage at Key Arena, Sunday, March 19, 2000. The event features an unusual double header of hockey action, starting at 2:05 p.m., when Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. employees take the ice against Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. employees. The second match starts at 5 p.m. and showcases the Seattle Thunderbirds vs. the Tri-City Americans The Tri-City Americans are a major junior hockey team of the Western Hockey League, based in Kennewick, Washington. The team plays its home games at the Toyota Center. History The Tri-City Americans franchise is an original franchise of the WHL. . So far, the fundraising effort has raised over $570,000 for the Ronald McDonald House at Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. . -- WHAT: Microsoft Windows and Exchange employees strap on the skates and work out the bugs in their last practices, before facing off against each other on Sunday, March 19, 2000. -- WHEN: Microsoft Exchange to practice Wednesday, March 15, (1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m) Microsoft Windows to practice Thursday, March 16 (12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.) -- WHERE: Kingsgate Ice Arena, 14326 124th Ave. NE, Kirkland Phone -- 425/823-1242 |
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