Released on: December 6, 2007, 10:47 am

Press Release Author: Xceed Software inc.

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: MONTREAL, QC - December 3, 2007 - Xceed today announced that
Microsoft Corp. has used Xceed Zip for .NET and Xceed Chart for .NET to implement
client-side and server-side portions of its upcoming Windows Home Server product.

Press Release Body: Windows Home Server helps families easily centralize and connect
their digital experiences, providing a familiar and reliable way to store, share,
and automatically protect digital photos, music, videos, and documents. Windows Home
Server is primarily designed for "headless" systems without a monitor, mouse or
keyboard. The software is easily configured with the Windows Home Server Console
application on a home PC and allows consumers to remotely access files and home PCs
via the Web.

Xceed's components figure in the client-side and the server-side of Windows Home
Server, providing both UI elements and data manipulation capabilities. First, in the
Windows Home Server Console, duties for displaying charts with statistics on free
storage space, usage, etc., are handled by Xceed Chart for .NET. Second, when the
home server is accessed remotely, Xceed Zip for .NET is used to compress and package
files so they can be downloaded as a single Zip file onto a computer over the
Internet.

"When we needed a control to draw charts in the Windows Home Server Console, a
colleague referred me to Xceed Software," explained CJ Saretto, senior program
manager at Microsoft. "I downloaded the trial edition to see what it could do and
was blown away by the Chart Explorer application. It took all of the guesswork out
of evaluating the control's capabilities. Without writing a single line of code, we
knew that Xceed Chart for .NET could meet our needs. A day later we had Xceed Chart
for .NET working in our application." Concerning Xceed Zip for .NET, he added: "When
we needed a library to handle ZIP files for Windows Home Server Remote Access, we
turned to Xceed immediately, and we were up and running again in less than a day!"

Dileep Kumar, a developer at Microsoft who worked directly with Xceed's chart
control, had this to say: "Xceed Chart for .NET has an elaborate set of features. It
was possible to customize pretty much everything on the chart: the borders, the
background, the style (3D, 2D, projection), and the text. There was pretty much no
requirement we had that was not met by the control, and the graphics were fast, too.
The sample application provided (Chart Explorer) helped a lot."

Xceed Zip for .NET is an industry-leading data compression component for .NET and
ASP.NET. Powered by the Xceed FileSystem Core, it lets developers manipulate files
and folders anywhere: in Zip and Tar archives, in GZip files, via secure FTP
(including through HTTP proxy servers), in self-extracting Zip files, in streams,
and in memory. This intuitive object model makes working with compressed or remote
files and folders as easy as working with local ones.

Xceed Chart for .NET lets programmers rapidly create impressive charts in Windows
Forms applications, saving time and producing great results. The fastest-rendering
2D/3D chart component on the market with both OpenGL and GDI+ render devices, it
features extensive Visual Studio design-time support, a built-in toolbar and grid,
built-in formulas, 3D view control and scene lighting, data binding support
(DataAdapters and DataSets), and a data binding wizard.

In July 2005, Xceed similarly announced that Microsoft Corp. had opted to use Xceed
Grid for .NET and Xceed SmartUI for .NET to implement part of Office 2007.
Microsoft's suite of productivity applications has an estimated user-base of over
400 million worldwide.

Fully functional free trial versions of these 100%-managed components, designed to
work on version 2.0 of the .NET Framework with Visual Studio 2005, are now available
for download. Versions for .NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 are also
available, but new features will no longer be developed for these versions.

About Xceed Software Inc.

Xceed Software Inc.-a leading developer of high-quality components and UI controls
for Windows developers since 1994 and one of today\'s leading component vendors-is
devoted to the development and support of its products, and ardently promotes
component-oriented programming. Today, over 25,000 developers use Xceed components
worldwide, including Microsoft. For more information and product or evaluation
downloads, please visit http://www.xceed.com/.

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Contact: Charles Duncan (duncanc@xceedsoft.com)
Xceed Software Inc.
1555 Jean-Paul-Vincent, suite 180
Longueuil (Quebec), Canada, J4N 1L6
(450) 442-2626, ext. 228

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Web Site: http://xceed.com

Contact Details: Contact: Charles Duncan (duncanc@xceedsoft.com)
Xceed Software Inc.
1555 Jean-Paul-Vincent, suite 180
Longueuil (Quebec), Canada, J4N 1L6
(450) 442-2626, ext. 228