The development, release, and timing of
any features or functionality described for our products remains at our
sole discretion and we reserve the right to modify or terminate all
discussed development efforts without prior notice .com, on March 28.aero and Airport Equipment +
Technology, ATW's quarterly supplement about airport and airline
operations.
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Demonstrations of the planned initiative will be given at the Blackboard
booth #413 at the EDUCAUSE Exhibit Hall on Wednesday, October 19th at 11:05
am EST.

About Microsoft Education

Microsoft is committed to helping the higher education community realize
their full potential - any time, any place, and on any device.

About Blackboard Inc.careers.
"We are excited about the new site and will continue to add
content to each of the channels as well as develop relationships with
other content providers to enhance the visitor experience," says
Freeman.

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The project will result in tighter integration
between The Microsoft Office System and The Blackboard Academic Suite
via standards-based integration of The Blackboard Community System and
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. In addition, the forward-looking statements
included in this press release represent the Company's views as of October
18, 2005. Each month, close to 40,000
subscribers around the world look forward to reading up on the latest
trends and developments affecting their businesses.

magazine archives

Additionally, the archive houses articles from
ATW's quarterly supplement Airport Equipment + Technology, ATW Daily
News and A2A.
The streamlined online store allows for speedier purchasing of
back issues as well as market studies and reports, subscriptions ,
technology updates, calendars, books, industry statistics and direct
mail lists.

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This is intended to outline our general product direction
and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision , and may not
be incorporated into any contract.

"ATW's Web site has become immensely popular with advertisers
regarding both the ATW Daily News product and on-site advertising,"
says Bill Freeman, ATW publisher.

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About the ATW Media Group

The ATW Media Group includes Air Transport World magazine,
ATWOnline.

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Air Transport World, the leading monthly magazine serving the
airline and commercial aircraft manufacturing industries, introduced
its redesigned Website, ATWOnline. New
print articles are added to the archive 30 days after publication .

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"With this program we plan to bring closer together the administrative
power of Microsoft SharePoint with the academic collaboration capabilities
of the Blackboard Community System and the Blackboard Content System," said
Todd Gibby, Executive Vice President of Operations at Blackboard . With the
powerful capabilities of Microsoft .
The site also now has the capability to archive Webcasts.
Visit http://www.

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Founded in
1997, Blackboard enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting
people and technology.
The new site continues to feature ATW Daily News, which reports
airline industry breaking news compiled by ATW's award-winning
editorial team. They can
choose to explore the following vertical markets: Maintenance,
Training, Routes + Airports, Information Technology, New Airline
Business Models, Safety + Security, Airline Focus, World Regions,
Aircraft + Equipment and Data/Airline Economics.

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Actual results may
differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements
as a result of various important factors, including the factors discussed
in the "Risk Factors" section of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on
May 13, 2005 with the SEC.

This press release may contain information reflecting our current
development plan. The
archive contains full articles from the past six months; older
articles are viewable by title only and the relating issues are
available for purchase through the online store.
The Air Transport World Media Group is part of Penton Media, Inc.

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Air Transport World Launches Redesigned Web Site

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ATW will
present a Webcast later this spring.

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, with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

Blackboard

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"Given the broad adoption of both Blackboard and Microsoft technologies in
Higher Education, we share many customers that actively use Microsoft and
Blackboard solutions on campus. With two product suites, the Blackboard Academic
Suite and the Blackboard Commerce Suite , Blackboard is used by
millions of people at academic institutions around the globe, including
colleges, universities, K-12 schools and other education providers, as well
as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants that serve education
providers and their students. Innovate. Everywhere. "In response to increased demand for
additional branding opportunities , ATW has delivered a redesigned
Daily News feature offering more inventory for advertisers as well
more opportunities throughout the site to enhance brand awareness to
airline management worldwide .

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Site improvements include a clean, crisp layout, easier site
navigation , enhanced advertising opportunities, Webcast capabilities,
a streamlined online store, an expanded searchable archive, and
increased functionality through the addition of ten vertical market
channels . Advertising on specific channels of
content gives companies the unique opportunity of taking ownership of
a subject area on the site.atwonline.

monthly times

Blackboard is headquartered in Washington,
D.C.
The ten new channels make it easy for users to quickly find
information specific to their niche in the aviation industry."
ATWOnline's new searchable archive puts a goldmine of aviation
information at your fingertips. Now in its 41st
year of publication, ATW remains the most important single source of
information for individuals involved in the airline industry.

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(NASDAQ: BBBB) and Microsoft
announced today at the EDUCAUSE 2005 annual conference, a joint development
project intended to help academic institutions achieve a higher degree of
integration and interoperability between their respective portal and
collaboration products.

Blackboard and Microsoft initiated this project in response to numerous
requests from academic institutions currently operating both SharePoint and
Blackboard , looking to deliver a range of services offered by both
solutions. These
forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the
Company's views as of any date subsequent to October 18, 2005. Each channel pulls
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PRESS RELEASE Blackboard and Microsoft Cooperate to Integrate Administrative and Academic Collaboration Products

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prospects for Blackboard and other statements containing the words
"believes," "anticipates ," "plans," "expects," "will," and similar
expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments
will cause the Company's views to change.

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NET - connected solutions , the
Microsoft Public Sector Organization empowers administrators, faculty, and
students by providing them the information they need, when and where they
need it. However, while the Company may
elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the
future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. The archive is searchable by issue,
topic or author and, for the first time, is populated with articles
from ATW magazine.

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Our customers want these solutions to work
together, and we want to provide more choice and the flexibility to easily
deploy and manage the combination of Blackboard and Microsoft technologies
that best meet the individual needs of each institution," said Rob Curtin,
Microsoft's Industry Solution Manager for Higher Education.

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The project intends to address the needs of campus IT and Portal
mangers to optimize the use of the combined solutions for the benefit of
faculty, staff, and students. (NASDAQ: BBBB) is a leading provider of enterprise software
applications and related services to the education industry.

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