• Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-026) - Patch Available for "Mixed Object Access" Vulnerability
  Time: 18:38 EST/23:38 GMT News Source: Microsoft Product Security Posted By: Matthew Sabean

  Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in Microsoft(r) Windows(r) 2000 that could, under very specific conditions, allow a malicious user to change information in the Active Directory that he should not be able to change.

  Active Directory allows for access control of directory objects on a per-attribute basis. However, the vulnerability at issue here could allow a malicious user to modify object attributes that he does not have permission to modify, as long as he combined the operation in a particular way with ones involving attributes that he does have permission to modify.

  The vulnerability does not afford the malicious user an opportunity to modify all objects in a class - only the specific class objects for which he has permission to modify at least one attribute. Further, the vulnerability provides no capability to bypass normal authentication or Windows 2000 auditing, so administrators could determine if this vulnerability were being exploited, and by whom.

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• Consumers Sue Microsoft in Washington D.C. for Antitrust Violations
  Time: 15:42 EST/20:42 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Today, the law firm of Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson announces that a class action lawsuit was served upon Microsoft Corporation's registered agent in the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs Kenneth V. Cummins and Nelson F. Rimensnyder brought the suit on their own behalf and behalf of others similarly situated in the District of Columbia as purchasers of Windows 98. The complaint was filed in D.C. Superior Court on April 13. The complaint alleges that Microsoft violated D.C. antitrust law due to its unlawful pricing of Windows 98. The Class seeks damages consisting of three times the difference between the monopoly price paid by the Class for Windows 98 and a competitive price for Windows 98.

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• Microsoft Heightens North Carolina Anti-Piracy Efforts
  Time: 15:06 EST/20:06 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Alex Harris

  Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has discovered four businesses in North Carolina which allegedly distributed counterfeit Microsoft^® software. Microsoft is taking action to stop these companies from distributing illegal software in order to help prevent unsuspecting consumers, resellers and the value of intellectual property from the negative impact of software piracy.

  "North Carolina is one of the nation's leading technology centers," said Carroll Gray, president of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. "It's important that we address criminal activities, such as software piracy, that can have a considerable impact on the consumers, resellers and economies in our community and this state. If we want our local economy to continue to flourish and contribute to the economic growth both of our city and our state, we must support the fight against piracy of all sorts."

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• HomeAdvisor.com Expands Into Canada as Top Firms Put Entire Inventories Of Homes for Sale on Leading Home-Buying Site
  Time: 15:04 EST/20:04 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Alex Harris

  The HomeAdvisor.com™ online real estate service, the award-winning guide to finding homes and loans on the Web, today announced that nearly two out of every three homes for sale in Canada will be listed for sale on www.homeadvisor.com thanks to new listing agreements with Coldwell Banker Affiliates of Canada, RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada Inc. and the Toronto Real Estate Board. This is the first time HomeAdvisor.com has expanded to include real estate listings outside of the United States. The Canadian listings will be available on HomeAdvisor.com when the site relaunches in the coming weeks.

  Coldwell Banker Affiliates of Canada, RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada and the Toronto Real Estate Board together account for more than 60 percent of homes listed for sale in Canada. With this announcement, HomeAdvisor.com will also provide Canadians direct access to these listings on Microsoft's Canadian version of the MSN™ network of Internet services, located on the Web at http://www.msn.ca.

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• Financial Services Industry Demonstrates Massive Adoption of Windows 2000 At Financial Summit
  Time: 15:02 EST/20:02 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Alex Harris

  Today at the Financial Summit, Microsoft Corp. announced that enterprise leaders in the securities and banking industries have rapidly moved to adopt the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system, allowing them to expand their services and operations to meet increasing market demands. Financial Services leaders are addressing the needs of their global, multinational customers while increasing their revenue opportunities and expanding their personalized customer services by utilizing the Windows 2000 platform.

  Business leaders such as Credit Suisse First Boston, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Wells Fargo Bank and the SWX Swiss Exchange are leading the way in developing innovative solutions that utilize the Windows 2000 platform to streamline their business functions and enhance customer service.

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• The Gates of Hades: Microsoft attempts to co-opt Kerberos
  Time: 14:59 EST/19:59 GMT News Source: Linux World Posted By: Alex Harris

  Can you imagine Bill Gates as Hercules? With all due respect to the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, he looks a bit wimpy to play the role of one of the most powerful heroes of Greek mythology. But looks can be deceptive: Gates probably wields more clout than any other businessman on the planet.

  With the recent launch of Windows 2000 and its proprietary version of Kerberos, Gates and company seem to be embarking on a journey that is eerily similar to the last of the 12 labors of Hercules: the capture of Kerberos, the three-headed hound who guarded the gates of Hades. Today's Kerberos is different, however.

  In May of 1983, MIT established the Athena Project to help explore new uses for its computing facilities. The Athena Project, in turn, gave birth to both the X Window system that is so widely used by almost every flavor of Unix these days, including Linux, and to Kerberos, the computer network authentication system given the name of the aforementioned hound.

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• Workout.com gets into peak condition with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows DNA
  Time: 14:57 EST/19:57 GMT News Source: Microsoft Daily News Posted By: Alex Harris

  When Workout.com Inc. launched its Internet fitness portal, it put some muscle behind the effort.

  The company built the Web site on a strong, flexible platform—Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server and Windows DNA 2000. Using Microsoft technology, Workout.com got up and running in just 45 days. The Windows 2000 platform also provides high reliability, easy manageability and great scalability for the site, which averages 125,000 hits a day.

  "Workout.com is one of the growing number of e-commerce companies using Windows 2000 to exploit the power of The Business Internet today," said Tod Nielsen, vice president of the Platform Group at Microsoft. "Windows 2000 delivers the reliability and scalability that Workout.com needs to create and maintain a powerful Internet portal. And it supports fast, flexible Web development using the popular and industry-standard tools with which developers are already familiar."

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• Pocket PC: Can it slap Palm?
  Time: 14:55 EST/19:55 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  Taking a "more is more" approach, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced its latest handheld computing platform, which comes bundled with new productivity applications, a shrunken version of Internet Explorer and the original version of Pac-Man running on an emulator. The Pocket PC made its debut during the morning rush hour on a balcony at New York's Grand Central Station. Microsoft chose the location intentionally for its "mobility aspect," a company official said.

  Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Casio Corp. and Symbol Technologies Inc. announced handheld computers based on the new software.

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• Pocket PCs Sound Off
  Time: 14:52 EST/19:52 GMT News Source: Wired Posted By: Alex Harris

  It’s 9 a.m. at Grand Central Station and up in the north balcony, Steve Ballmer is shouting to be heard over the din of commuters rushing around below.

  Ballmer, CEO and president of Microsoft, certainly believes he has something to shout about -- he’s introducing the new Pocket PC, the operating system for the next generation of Windows-based handheld devices.

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• Microsoft Says It Has A Rocket In Its Pocket
  Time: 14:48 EST/19:48 GMT News Source: TechWeb Posted By: Alex Harris

  Microsoft competitors often joke that it takes the software giant three tries to get anything right. By that logic, the Pocket PC, introduced Wednesday, should be a hit.

  Palmtops running the four-year-old Windows CE bombed because they were too large, too power hungry, and too expensive.

  Microsoft (stock: MSFT) handheld PCs hold only about 15 percent of PDA sales; Palm (stock: PALM) owns nearly 80 percent. Enter version 3 of Windows CE for handhelds, slimmed down to run on smaller, more power-efficient hardware.

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• Motocross Madness 2 Preview
  Time: 14:46 EST/19:46 GMT News Source: AVault Posted By: Alex Harris

  AVault have posted a preview of Microsoft's upcoming game, Motocross Madness 2. Here is a snippet of the preview:

  Motocross Madness 2 is now being prepared by the same developer as the original, the Arizona-based Rainbow Studios. That is no surprise given the accolades of the original, including a Reviewer's Choice award from the Adrenaline Vault. Indeed, Motocross Madness 2 Lead Designer Robb Rinard notes that generally, "People's initial reactions were almost always very positive, with everyone complaining just about the same couple of things -- not enough surface objects and the game was so fun their relationship with their loved ones were in jeopardy!" While this new version maintains the basic look and feel of its predecessor, it has new gameplay depth, graphics realism, and multiplayer features to become even better. While no single change is that dramatic, the new features are so numerous it is hard to mention them all.

  The background research put in by the development team for this sequel has been exceptional. The lead technology programmer Mark De Simone has been reading Siggraph papers for insights into leading edge 3D rendering techniques. Glenn O'Bannon has spent a lot of time researching algorithms for things like shocks and transmissions. Brian Gillies, the lead artist, has been continually heading out into the field doing photo research on the way things look. Rinard himself has been watching motocross video tape and hanging out with pro Supercross riders to get a good feel for how riders interact with the bike. It is rare for this level of investigation to occur in a brand new release, let alone a derivative one.

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• Glance for Outlook 2000 v1.2
  Time: 14:40 EST/19:40 GMT News Source: File Flash Posted By: Alex Harris

  If you leave Outlook 2000 open all the time, you probably noticed it is quite an eye sore. I found this little program which will take some of the pain away, called Glance for Outlook 2000. Glance is a small, tray-based program designed to streamline and simplify interaction with Outlook 2000.

  You can download Glance for Outlook 2000 v1.2 here.

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• Palm Sees No Threat From Microsoft Pocket
  Time: 10:42 EST/15:42 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Palm Inc, the leading maker of palm-top computers, said on Thursday it saw no threat to its market share from Microsoft's new hand-held computer. Palm's business development manager for South Asia, Dolly Chin, told Reuters the launch of Microsoft's ``Pocket PC'' would not prevent Palm meeting its ambitious sales growth targets.

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• Microsoft to site region HQ in Dubai Internet City
  Time: 07:49 EST/12:49 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) said on Thursday it would site its Middle East regional headquarters in Dubai Internet City (DIC), a free-trade zone for e-commerce due to be completed in October.

  The U.S. software giant, which already has offices in Dubai, said in a statement it would also work on Arabic-language software development in the DIC and increase its focus on Internet-related business in the local market.

  ``We believe that the Dubai Internet City will bring a totally new impetus to commerce and technology within this region,'' said Microsoft Vice-President of the Regional Enterprise Group Patrick De Smedt.

  Microsoft said that siting the software development work in the DIC would aid the transfer of skills to the local market, as well as bring products closer to local users. The DIC free zone initiative is part of Dubai's efforts to become a regional hub for technology firms.

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• AMD unveils new generation of cheap notebook chips
  Time: 02:39 EST/07:39 GMT News Source: CNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  Advanced Micro Devices released two new lines of microprocessors for notebooks this week, and Intel will follow with new portable chips in a few days.

  The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker released the K6-2+ and K6-3+ microprocessors this week. The chips--which run at 450, 475 and 500 MHz--are enhanced versions of AMD's K6-2 and K6-3 families.

  Rather than market these processors for both desktops and notebooks, AMD will concentrate on portables with these chips. A notebook version of its touted Athlon chip will appear toward the end of the year, the company said.

  Among major manufacturers, Hewlett-Packard has already announced a K6-2+ notebook that, after rebates, sells for $999.

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• New software aims to meld rival messenger products
  Time: 02:37 EST/07:37 GMT News Source: CNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  America Online may have just been thrown a curve ball as it seeks to bat away competitors intent on forcing the company to open its hugely popular instant messaging services.

  Sweden-based My Solutions this week released software dubbed MyCQ that allows people to simultaneously log on to multiple messaging products and communicate on all of them through a single interface.

  Although MyCQ does not technically allow incompatible services to talk to one another, it could reduce the gap between rival products by making it easy to sign up for and manage them. For now, the product supports ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), according to documentation on the company's Web site. However, the product is largely untested and may not live up to its promises.

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• Microsoft Pocket PC Review
  Time: 18:46 EST/23:46 GMT News Source: CNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  CNet have posted their review of the new Microsoft Pocket PC. They gave it 7/10 and here is a snippet of the review:

  If you love Windows, you're going to love Microsoft's newest version of Windows CE, Pocket PC. This handheld OS looks and feels a lot like the familiar Windows desktop, includes handheld versions of Microsoft Excel and Word, and is much easier to use than Windows CE. But that's where the fun stops. Unfortunately, Pocket PC runs only on expensive devices such as the $500 HP Jornada 545, it crashes more often than the Palm OS, and it doesn't recognize handwriting as well as the Palm. Windows fans in the market for a handheld may be swayed, but Palm users should stay put.

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• X-Box gets some Flex appeal
  Time: 18:44 EST/23:44 GMT News Source: AGN News Posted By: Alex Harris

  Flextronics, a Microsoft strategic hardware supplier, currently manufactures products for Microsoft's Hardware and WebTV groups.

  ``We are pleased that Microsoft has again chosen Flextronics as a Strategic Supplier. The award of the X-Box program further enhances the relationship between our two companies,'' stated Michael Marks, Chairman and CEO of Flextronics International. Mr. Marks continued, ``Microsoft's outsourcing of X-Box manufacturing aligns with Flextronics' commitment to provide its multinational customers with world-class manufacturing services.''

  ``Noted for its flexibility and speed, Flextronics has demonstrated its ability to deliver full service global manufacturing solutions,'' said Robbie Bach, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Games Division. ``Flextronics provides MS an ideal manufacturing solution for X-Box.''

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• Ballmer Hints At Microsoft Tech Strategy
  Time: 18:36 EST/23:36 GMT News Source: TechWeb Posted By: Alex Harris

  Steve Ballmer, the ever-enthusiastic top salesman of Microsoft products, continued his XML stump speech this week, while he gave conference attendees a glimpse of the future according to Microsoft.

  The immediate future revolves around XML and servers, lots and lots of them, and all running Microsoft software, Ballmer said to attendees of the Financial Summit on Wednesday,

  Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft (stock: MSFT), came to the Wall Street event after helping launch a new mobile computing device, the Pocket PC, at an event uptown at Grand Central Station.

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• Report: Microsoft Is Building New Monopolies
  Time: 18:34 EST/23:34 GMT News Source: TechWeb Posted By: Alex Harris

  Microsoft is replaying previous tactics, leveraging its desktop operating system monopoly to gain dominance in the server and computer networking markets, an industry group said Wednesday.

  "Microsoft recognizes the importance of the network market and is moving aggressively to control that market, much the same way it moved successfully to control the market for desktop operating systems and Internet browsers," the Computer and Communications Industry Association said in a white paper titled "Windows 2000: Blueprint for Dominance."

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• Microsoft Backing Atom's Bombs
  Time: 18:32 EST/23:32 GMT News Source: Wired Posted By: Alex Harris

  "Suckup Man" meets Steve Ballmer. That is, more or less, the plot of a three-minute animated short from Atom Films that has the boot-licking star of Atom's Internet series bumping into Microsoft's CEO at a crowded airport.

  On Wednesday, Atom announced the release of 20 films for Microsoft's Pocket PC platform, a retooled version of its Windows CE software that will run on handheld devices from Casio, Hewlett-Packard, and Compaq.

  Microsoft is hoping that Pocket PC will help the company bounce back from its embarrassing showing so far against the Palm operating system, which dominates the handheld market.

  Meanwhile, Atom said pairing with the world's largest software company is a chance to break out from its niche Internet film market. Atom officials said they hope that by offering short films on a PDA, they can reach a much broader audience of business executives, college students and other consumers.

  But the question is whether people will watch these films on a handheld device.

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• 3dfx Beta Drivers version 1.04.07
  Time: 18:01 EST/23:01 GMT News Source: 3D Spotlight Posted By: Alex Harris

  3dfx have released new beta drivers. Here is the info on what they fix:

  What's New in Version 1.04.07 BETA
  THESE ARE BETA DRIVERS AND ARE UNSUPPORTED BY 3DFX TECHNICAL SUPPORT 
  Please download and view the FAQ for more info about this and future BETA drivers 
  Updated kit after server failed. 
  Contains new Driver installer. 
  Contains New edge tools - 1.5.7.77 
  Force Commander fix 
  Incorrect texture sizes reported from Glide fixed

  You can download the drivers from here.

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• Microsoft MoneyCentral to remove Bill Pay feature
  Time: 18:01 EST/23:01 GMT News Source: E-Mail Posted By: Alex Harris

  Today Microsoft have sent out emails to people that have registered their copies of Microsoft Money because some of the MSNT MoneyCentral Bill Pay users can not get that feature to work. Here is the email that they sent out:

  To our MoneyCentral Bill Pay Customers:

  We recently learned that our Microsoft Money integration feature is not working as well as we had hoped; this is causing some inconvenience for a few of our customers.

  While the problems are minor and have affected only a small number of our Money and MSNT MoneyCentral Bill Pay users, customers are spending more time trying to reconcile payment entries than we believe they should. As a result, today we are temporarily removing the "Download to Microsoft Money" button from the left menu of the Payment Center.

  When we have made changes to this capability, we will notify you. Customer satisfaction is very important to us and we realize that removing this feature may cause some inconvenience for you. As a courtesy to you, our valued customer, please accept six months of free service*-in addition to the free service that you receive during your promotional period.

  Thank you for using our service and we hope you are enjoying paying your bills through MoneyCentral Bill Pay. If you have any questions, please contact us at (800) 237-9237.

  Sincerely,

  MoneyCentral Bill Pay Customer Support

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• Microsoft to release mobile database for handhelds
  Time: 18:01 EST/23:01 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Alex Harris

  Microsoft's long-promised mobile database software for Windows CE devices is a step closer to becoming reality.

  Microsoft today said it will ship a test version of its mobile database--called the SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition--for the Windows CE operating system on June 30. The final version of the software is expected to ship in the third quarter, the company said.

  The mobile database announcement is part of the company's launch today of its Pocket PC operating system, the third update to the company's CE operating system for palm-sized devices.

  Microsoft joins database rivals IBM, Oracle, Sybase and Informix in the growing market for mobile databases, as demand surges for handheld electronic devices.

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• Microsoft's ultimate judge
  Time: 17:59 EST/22:59 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  Everyone has a strong opinion about what, if anything, should be done to curb Microsoft's monopolistic practices. But unlike other cases in the high-tech industry, here there seems to be no middle ground.

  Richard Posner, the mediating judge who moonlights as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, found that out the hard way when he tried to create some common ground among Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice and the publicity-seeking state attorneys general who have sued the company. In the end, it fell apart because the interests involved were too diverse, the process was too unwieldy, and because egos got in the way, as they have since this case began.

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• Rivals claim fault on MS server tactics
  Time: 17:57 EST/22:57 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  As federal antitrust enforcers prepare a recommended remedy to rein in Microsoft Corp., they are weighing a volatile factor: allegations by competitors that Microsoft is trying to extend its monopoly power to the Internet and network "server" market with its new Windows 2000 operating system.

  Even as a federal court scrutinizes the company, antitrust enforcers are studying Microsoft's current tactics in the market for industrial-strength software that runs Web sites and corporate networks. The large and highly competitive market is currently dominated by Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), Linux and Unix software.

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• Yahoo! Messenger Palm/Windows CE Beta
  Time: 17:54 EST/22:54 GMT News Source: File Flash Posted By: Alex Harris

  A couple new beta versions of Yahoo!'s instant messaging program were updated. Instant messaging allows you to quickly exchange messages with your online friends. Unlike email, instant messages appear as soon they're sent. By downloading the Yahoo! Messenger application to your computer, you can send instant messages and much more.

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• Microsoft browser bug may access private files
  Time: 15:59 EST/20:59 GMT News Source: News.com Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft is looking into a newly discovered security hole in its browser that could expose people's private files to malicious Web site operators. The security flaw surfaces as the software giant reels from a series of miscues involving security breaches and software leaks.

  The latest bug has to do with the way Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser handles the Java programming language, according to veteran browser-bug hunter Georgi Guninski. The flaw lets a malicious Web site operator use a script to open a new browser window. That window opens with the computer owner's security safeguards.

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• MS X-Box exec departs for Go2Net
  Time: 15:50 EST/20:50 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Go2Net Inc said Wednesday that it hired Microsoft Corp. executive Rick Thompson to be its chief financial officer. Russell Horowitz, Go2Net's CEO, had been pulling double duty as CEO and CFO.

  Thompson, who has been with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) for more than 12 years, will play a big role Go2Net's operational, financial and strategic activities, including investments, acquisitions, and partnerships, the company said.

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• Will Linux replace Windows?
  Time: 15:50 EST/20:50 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Now that Microsoft has been declared a monopoly, some observers say Linux will waltz onto desktops as a Windows replacement. I'm not so sure.

  I have a hunch that Linux's opportunity lies somewhere underneath the desktop. By that I don't mean down in the dusty corners of programmers cubicles, where the cockroaches are rooting for pizza crumbs. Rather, Linux will have a future as an embedded system on an Internet appliance that supplants much of what we do on bulky desktop systems.

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• Nvidia gets $200 million from Microsoft
  Time: 15:45 EST/20:45 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  NVIDIA Corp. NVDA on Wednesday said it got $200 million from Microsoft Corp. MSFT in an advance payment against NVIDIA's future supply of graphics processing units (GPUs) to be included in Microsoft's X-Box.

  The X-Box is a new videogame console that is currently under development by Microsoft. In early March, NVIDIA agreed to develop and sell custom-designed GPUs for the X-Box and to license certain technology to Microsoft and its licensees for use in X-Box.

  The agreement between Microsoft and NVIDIA was announced on March 10, 2000. NVIDIA develops advanced graphics processing technology for mainstream platforms.

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• Microsoft and Industry Partners Put Personality in Pocket PCs
  Time: 08:59 EST/13:59 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Today at the Pocket PC launch event in New York's Grand Central Station, Microsoft Corp. and industry partners showcased the unprecedented capabilities of the Pocket PC, responding to customer feedback by delivering products that are much more than just powerful personal information managers. Highlighted at the event were new services and content for the Pocket PC from ActiveSky Inc., America Online Inc. (AOL), AtomFilms, Audible Inc., AvantGo Inc., BSQUARE Corp., Columbia TriStar Interactive, Digital Entertainment Network Inc., Ilium Software, Laridian Inc., MediaBay Inc., MSN™ Mobile, oppsdreams software inc., Rapture Technologies Inc., Sierra Imaging Inc., Siscosoft Corp., TeleType Co., ZIO Interactive Inc. and others. The demonstration-packed event showed that Pocket PCs make it easier than ever for users to take fun with them wherever they go with powerful hardware and software to enable robust gaming, rich Web content and integrated music and electronic books applications.

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• Microsoft Expands Pocket PC Possibilities With Pocket Packs
  Time: 08:55 EST/13:55 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Today at the Pocket PC launch event in New York's Grand Central Station, Microsoft Corp. introduced Pocket PC Expansion Packs, which use industry-standard CompactFlash (CF) cards and software to easily extend the capabilities of Pocket PC devices. Two initial Pocket Packs are available today, with dozens of additional CompactFlash solutions for memory, networking, digital cameras and more already available. The Fun Pocket PC Expansion Pack will be available for free to customers who buy a Pocket PC this year and includes more than 20 applications, including Pac-Man for Pocket PC, which looks, sounds and plays just like the original arcade game. The E-mail Pocket PC Expansion Pack from Pretec Electronics Corp. facilitates sending and receiving e-mail while on the go.

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• Microsoft Releases Next-Generation PDA, the Pocket PC
  Time: 08:55 EST/13:55 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Today in New York's Grand Central Station, Microsoft Corp. announced immediate availability of the Pocket PC and joined industry partners to herald in a new era of truly personal computing. Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled new Pocket PC designs from hardware partners Casio Computer Company Ltd., Compaq Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Symbol Technologies Inc. while putting the devices to the test through demonstrations showcasing their wireless, enterprise and cutting-edge gaming and video capabilities. More than 60 companies showcased their Pocket PC solutions in the launch Partner Pavilion, and executives from TD Waterhouse Investor Services Inc. and SAP AG joined Ballmer on stage to announce how they are using the new Pocket PCs in customer scenarios.

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• Microsoft and Think Outside Announce Portable Keyboard Solution For Windows-Powered Pocket PCs
  Time: 08:55 EST/13:55 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. and Think Outside Inc. today announced a keyboard solution for Microsoft's new Pocket PC platform. Think Outside's Stowaway™ portable keyboard for the Pocket PC is a full-size keyboard that allows users to take full advantage of the Pocket PC's native support for Microsoft^® Word, Microsoft Excel and the Outlook^® messaging and collaboration client while on the road. The Stowaway portable keyboard will work with Casio and Hewlett-Packard products that are based on the Pocket PC platform. Think Outside's keyboards for Pocket PCs are due to be available in the third quarter of 2000.

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• AtomFilms is First to Deliver Film and Animation to Windows-powered Pocket PCs
  Time: 08:34 EST/13:34 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Utilizing the advanced technologies of the new Windows-powered Pocket PC, AtomFilms, the recognized leader next-generation entertainment, will provide online access to its TV-quality film shorts on this next-generation PDA from Microsoft Corp. and its partners.

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• Microsoft Unveils Windows Product
  Time: 08:33 EST/13:33 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Weeks after a federal judge found Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) broke antitrust law, the software company unveiled its latest operating system, which continues to closely tie in its Internet browser - a practice that led to the company being branded a monopoly. Company executives at a computer trade show here demonstrated their Windows Millennium consumer operating system, due out later this year.

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• Strike Three for MS Handhelds?
  Time: 08:31 EST/13:31 GMT News Source: Wired Posted By: Byron Hinson

  There’s an old saw that it takes Microsoft three tries to get something right. Word, Internet Explorer, and Windows all are examples of software that were sound only after the third iteration. On Wednesday, Microsoft will relaunch its much-maligned Windows CE operating system for handheld computers, now called the Pocket PC.

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• Microsoft Insists It Broke No Laws
  Time: 08:30 EST/13:30 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Regardless of the recent ruling by a federal judge who found Microsoft in wide violation of antitrust law, the software company has always strived to behave with ``the highest integrity,'' its president says. ``It still matters in business what your values are,'' said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's president and chief executive officer.

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• Windows Me On Show
  Time: 08:30 EST/13:30 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  People watch a demonstration of Microsoft's Windows Millennium consumer operating system at COMDEX Spring 2000 in Chicago, Tuesday, April 18, 2000. The new operating system, the sequel to the consumer-oriented Windows 98, ties in software that allows consumers to download, store and share music, photos and videos off the Internet.

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• Thumb Drive and Windows Me shown at COMDEX Spring 2000
  Time: 04:48 EST/09:48 GMT News Source: Yahoo! Posted By: Alex Harris

  TaeJae Lee, left, of Seoul, Korea looks over the specs of the Thumb Drive (attached to lower right of computer) which is a Non-Mechanical drive that connects via the USB port at COMDEX Spring 2000, Tuesday, April 18, 2000, in Chicago. The Thumb Drive comes in 8MB to 256MB capacities, weighing only 30gm. Company executives at a computer trade show here demonstrated Microsoft's Windows Millennium consumer operating system, due out later this year, which continues to closely tie in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser that led to the company being branded a monopoly.

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• Hewlett Packard Pocket PC 
  Time: 04:48 EST/09:48 GMT News Source: Yahoo! Posted By: Alex Harris

  Shown is a Pocket PC from Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday, April 18, 2000 in New York. Microsoft and several partners will unveil the new Pocket PC, at a news conference April 19 in New York. The Pocket PC is a digital organizer that also plays MP3 music, games and runs on the Windows CE platform. Microsoft will work with its partners Hewlett-Packard, Casio and Compaq to to make the full-featured hand-held machines.

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• Compaq's iPaq
  Time: 04:48 EST/09:48 GMT News Source: Yahoo! Posted By: Alex Harris

  This is an undated handout photo of Compaq's iPaq, a new handheld organizer set to be unveiled Wednesday, April 19, 2000. Software giant Microsoft Corp. and its partners; Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Casio, hope to give market leader Palm Computing Inc. a run for its money. The Pocket PC, Microsoft's third try at building a successful handheld, will feature a much-improved Internet browser, easier on-screen reading, a digital voice recorder and a Windows Media music player. With additional plug-in hardware, the various models also will support wireless Internet connections and have additional memory storage.

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• Detailed Microsoft plans at E3
  Time: 04:48 EST/09:48 GMT News Source: Well Rounded Entertainment Posted By: Alex Harris

  Don't expect just a repeat of Gamestock for Microsoft at this year's E3. WRE has learned that the house that Gates built plans to roll out several as-yet unannounced titles at this year's show. New versions of the company's sports line - including NBA Inside Drive and NFL Fever - are expected to be on hand. And the company plans to debut one or two new non-sport titles as well (a number subject to change as the show gets closer, depending on how far along developers are on the titles).

  The X-Box will have a sizable presence as well, as you might expect. Microsoft plans a limited display on the show floor, but will have a more detailed, hands-on exhibition taking place behind closed doors.

  It's worth noting that there will not be playable demos of Freelancer or Dungeon Siege at this year's show. The company plans to show new in-game movies from both games behind closed doors, but industry and press won't be able to try them out first-hand. Both games are still early in the developmental process.

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• Microsoft's Ballmer Confident In Antitrust Case
  Time: 04:46 EST/09:46 GMT News Source: TechWeb Posted By: Alex Harris

  A top Microsoft executive repeated Tuesday that the software giant was convinced it had the facts and the law on its side as it continues to fight a government antitrust case.

  "We remain convinced that we have a strong set of factual and judicial arguments," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told business students at George Washington University. "Given that we could not settle, the next step is appeal and of course we'd like to get through that as quickly as possible," he added.

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• Bruised Microsoft Seen Hitting Profit Goal
  Time: 04:01 EST/09:01 GMT News Source: Yahoo! Posted By: Alex Harris

  Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) may be down, but it's not out.

  So say analysts who expect the software giant to meet or beat third-quarter profit expectations on Thursday despite a month of bad news that included a federal judge's stinging ruling that the company was a predatory monopoly.

  While no one expects a blow-out performance by the Redmond, Wash.-based company, few analysts doubt Microsoft, developer of the popular Windows computer operating system, will fail to deliver the 41 cents a share expected by Wall Street.

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• Microsoft Announces Winners Of Fifth Annual Retail Application Developer Awards
  Time: 03:59 EST/08:59 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Alex Harris

  Today at the Retail Systems 2000 Conference and Exposition, Microsoft Corp. announced the winners of the fifth annual Retail Application Developer (RAD) Awards, highlighting the most innovative Microsoft-based software solutions for the retail and supply chain industries. The Microsoft® RAD Awards recognize application developers that demonstrate industry leadership by creating best-of-breed solutions built on the Windows® platform and which maximize retail business benefits.

  "The applicants for the RAD Awards this year brought forward exciting and powerful solutions that take advantage of the reliability and interopera