The three key Microsoft product types are detailed below. Client Products Microsoft Outlook - manage email messages, tasks, appointments, contacts, and calendars and share it throughout your organization. Microsoft Internet Explorer - an ideal browser-based client interface for your applications, with support for dynamic HTML, scripting, and security. Server Products Microsoft Exchange Server - the backbone of Microsoft's collaborative system, Exchange supports communication, information sharing, and workflow services that use Internet standards and protocols. Microsoft SQL Server - a relational database system that offers easy storage and retrieval of relational information, with built-in data replication, powerful management tools, Internet integration, and open system architecture. Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) - a free web server that provides an easy way to publish and share information securely (using Microsoft Active Server Pages ) over corporate intranets and the Internet through HTML documents. Microsoft Site Server - a web publishing, analysis, and search tool that is integrated with Windows NT Server and IIS. Site Server is also used to integrate and manage information from other BackOffice products through full-text indexing of these different data sources. Development Products Microsoft Visual Studio - a comprehensive suite of integrated development tools used for building web-based or Microsoft Windows-based applications. Microsoft Visual Basic - an effective and easy to use tool for creating high-performance windows applications. Includes a rapid development environment with graphical layout tools. Microsoft Visual Interdev - empowers application developers to rapidly build fully interactive, dynamic web sites with collaborative capabilities. BACK