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We heard you! Heard what? For a while now you've been telling us that as much as you love your MSJ printed on paper and bound into a convenient-for-toilet-reading form factor (a.k.a. a magazine), you'd like to have access to MSJ content on the Web. Where you can search. Where you can retrieve some tip you remember reading about when you aren't near your paper copy. Where, during your six hour layover in Des Moines , you can catch up on any MSJ Editor's Notes you may have missed. Not the paltry single article a month we've put up or the mere samples of the other content, but ALL of the content. Some of you were eloquent, some belligerent; some downright threatening. We heard you. So, because our mission from Microsoft has always been to try to provide developers what they need to get their jobs done, we've taken the plunge by putting our full content on the Web. No password needed; it's just there when you type www.microsoft.com/msj. On December 15, 1999, we put up full content for MSJ issues going back through 1997. Unfortunately, we just don't have the resources to reprocess pre-1997 material, so for that you'll have to haul out those vintage MSDN discs. Going forward, each issue of MSJ will go up in full when the magazine is printed. You'll also notice several other significant changes to the MSJ site with our December 15th update. The most important is that we've redesigned the site to reflect the fact that we're part of MSDN. Technically we've been in the MSDN fold for some time, but to clarify our relationship to the rest of the MSDN products we've integrated our site with MSDN Online, which also went through a major update on December 15th. The new MSDN Online offers a redesigned home page, an improved search tool, simplified navigation, and a system that lets readers rate articles and add comments. The goal was to make it easier for developers to find exactly what they're looking for, no matter what the development topic. |
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The reader rating feature is an especially exciting new development. Articles will now have ratings from readers, as well as appended reader comments. Like (or hate) an article or have a question? Get a dialog going right there on the page. MSJ articles will include this feature starting with the January 2000 issue. Another exciting addition to the MSDN Online site is a new Developer Center for SQL Server. Continuing the MSDN initiative to create single-source where-to-find-it Web locations for Microsoft technologies, it joins the already existing Dev Centers for XML, Windows 2000, Windows Media, and Exchange. Finally, you'll want to check out our Web site for late-breaking announcements that the lawyers tell us we can't make by press time for this issue. We expect there will be another piece of big news about MSJ on the Web site the next time you log on. —M.L. So who's this M.L. guy anyway? —J.F.
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From the February 2000 issue of Microsoft Systems Journal. Get it at your local newsstand, or better yet, subscribe. |