April 2001 - Page 4 of 9

April 19, 2001

Microsoft Announces Strong Quarterly Revenue and Income

Windows 2000 Professional, .NET Enterprise Servers Post Impressive Growth

April 18, 2001

myHomeKey and MSN HomeAdvisor Team Up To Deliver More for Homeowners Online

myHomeKey and the MSN HomeAdvisor service announced that they will integrate a private-label, home service scheduling portal powered by myHomeKey’s proprietary technology (http://www.myhomekey.com/) on the HomeAdvisor site (http://www.homeadvisor.com/).

April 18, 2001

Developers Can Go Mobile with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Evaluation Edition

Developers who want to expand their knowledge and learn to build mobile business applications using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition 1.1 now have a tool to help achieve this goal.

April 18, 2001

Exchange 2000 Certification on Windows 2000 Datacenter Maximizes Server Uptime and Scales Way, Way Out

Microsoft Corp. announced that Microsoft Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server is now certified on the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, providing Exchange customers with the highest levels of availability and scalability.

April 18, 2001

Microsoft and ScanSoft Reach Licensing Agreement to Enable New Document Imaging Solutions for the Asian Market

ScanSoft To License Asian OCR Technology To Microsoft

April 18, 2001

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 to Support RosettaNet XML Standard

ASUS Speeds Deployment of Supply Chain Integration Through BizTalk Server Accelerator for RosettaNet

April 18, 2001

Pocket PC — The Wireless Wonder Turns 1

In the last 12 months, customers asked for better access, more choice and higher speeds — the Pocket PC and its partners delivered.

April 18, 2001

Office XP Speaks Out

Voice-recognition capability in the new version of Microsoft’s desktop productivity suite enables people who use character-based languages or who are limited by certain types of physical injury to be more productive.

April 17, 2001

Enterprise Solutions Conference 2001 Highlights the Need for Agility In the Fast-Growing Latin American Market

Microsoft CEO Points to Success of Early Adopters of the Microsoft Platform And .NET Enterprise Solutions to an Audience of Business Leaders in Latin America

April 17, 2001

Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Enterprise Solutions Conference

A transcript of remarks made by Steve Ballmer in Miami, Fla. on April 17, 2001 as part of Enterprise Solutions Conference.