Microsoft to use new NAS OS to duke it out with NetApp
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The Wednesday introduction of Microsoft's new NAS operating system, Windows Storage Server 2003, is aimed at extending the company's OS lead into the storage market and chipping away at the enterprise space currently occupied by Network Appliance.
"The [networked-attached storage] market was dominated by proprietary systems like that of NetApp, which are sold in only one way," said Charles Stevens, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Enterprise Storage Division. "Now the market has a broad choice of configurations and applications that can be customized."