UGS and Microsoft to collaborate on Product Lifecycle Manage

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Product life-cycle management applications vendor UGS and Microsoft announced this week a multi-year alliance through which they will collaborate to host the smaller companys suite of products entirely on Windows -- a first, they say.

Plano, Texas-based UGS, whose products are widely used in manufacturing enterprises, has announced previous collaborations with Microsoft. Last summer, UGS announced it will add Microsofts eXtensible Application Markup Language as one of its supported data formats. XAML is the format used by Windows Vistas Windows Presentation Foundation, previously codenamed "Avalon".