Fatbrain.com Selected as Preferred Online Bookstore for Microsoft Windows NT Server Site.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1999-- Leading Internet bookstore for professionals creates store for another Microsoft user community Fatbrain.com (Nasdaq:FATB FATB Florida Association of Ticket Brokers ), the Internet's most comprehensive professional bookstore, today announced it has been selected to create an online bookstore for an additional Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) community. Fatbrain.com will deliver a custom bookstore for Microsoft's Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. Server Web site, which was launched today. The new co-branded Microsoft and Fatbrain.com store, located at http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver, offers an expert selection of technical and business books, training materials and documentation plus special discounts for the more than 2.3 million information technology professionals who subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; Microsoft's Windows NT user update services. Fatbrain.com has set up similar preferred online bookstores, last month announcing a store for Microsoft's re-launched developer resource site, MSDN (MicroSoft Developer Network) A subscription service from Microsoft for software developers. It includes technical documentation and news, patches and fixes for existing products and beta copies of upcoming releases. Online, and earlier launching a store for the Microsoft TechNet A subscription service from Microsoft that contains technical documentation, software evaluation, tools and tips, plus drivers and patches for all of Microsoft's products. Subscribers can receive monthly updates on CD-ROMs or via downloads from the TechNet portal. site for IT professionals. "Fatbrain.com's expertise in providing resources for IT professionals makes it the perfect bookstore partner for our Windows NT site," said Emily Warn, group program manager, 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. Web sites. "With this new resource, Windows NT users and prospects now have access to a world-class selection of the most up-to-date references available on Windows NT." The online bookstore is custom-designed uniquely for Microsoft Windows NT users and prospects, delivering quick, directed access to Fatbrain.com's entire world-class selection of professional resources covering more than 800 technical subject categories. Recommended reading lists, regular updates and advanceuickly-growing user communities." About Fatbrrmerly ComputerLiteracy.com, the company first built a loyal following among programmers and IT professionalsFT") is the worldwide leader in software for petake advantage of the full power of personal computing every day. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. All company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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