Microsoft to unveil trading program
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft plans to sell financial services companies software to run trading systems in a bid to spread the use of its Windows program on more complex networks.
Microsoft will unveil a trading platform next week based on the new version of Windows for supercomputers released last week and a new Excel spreadsheet due later this year. The platform will be shown during a Securities Industry Association technology conference in New York, general manager Bill Hartnett said Wednesday.
The push to sell software for critical networks to Wall Street may help Microsoft gain ground in the market for high-performance computing. The Redmond-based company wants to win over customers who use operating systems such as Unix sold by Sun Microsystems Inc. and Linux from companies such as IBM.