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Microsoft internal confusion over the future of DotNet Services (HailStorm) (if you can believe anything that a Microsoftie says in public). Also some mention of NetDocs, which sounds like another Strategy Tax situation - Jim Allchin also revealed that a Microsoft plan under development two years ago to launch Web-based business productivity tools, code-named Netdocs, was "blown up," or discontinued, because Microsoft executives didn't think the technology plan was viable. Netdocs was expected to be an integrated business application including EMail, personal information management (PIM), document-authoring tools, digital media management and Instant Messaging. Microsoft planned to make Netdocs available only as a hosted service over the Internet, not as software that could be purchased separately or pre-loaded onto a machine. The plan competed squarely with Microsoft's MsOffice business software, which makes up more than a third of the software giant's overall revenue.