• Microsoft Windows Updates
  Time: 20:14 EST/01:14 GMT News Source: E-Mail Posted By: Matthew Sabean

  Microsoft has posted a new item on the Windows Update Page.

  Internet Explorer Security Update: Installing this security update will eliminate the "Image Source Redirect" vulnerability found in Internet Explorer. Without this update, a malicious Web site operator could read (but not add, change, or delete) certain types of files on your computer.

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• ICQ 2000a Alpha
  Time: 19:26 EST/00:26 GMT News Source: E-Mail Posted By: Matthew Sabean

  Icq has once again opened its Alpha Site for you to download the new build 3086 ver. 4.22

  I would suggest that if anyone is interested that they download and install immediately as the previous build was limited to a certain amount of users and when that was reached the ability to download was shut down.

  Download Here

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• New Beta G400 Drivers For Windows 9*/2000
  Time: 16:33 EST/21:33 GMT News Source: E-Mail Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Matrox has released new beta Windows 9* and Windows 2000 drivers for their G200 and G400 line of 2D/3D cards.

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• Hewlett-Packard products, services take advantage of Windows 2000 reliability features
  Time: 14:43 EST/19:43 GMT News Source: Microsoft Daily News Posted By: Alex Harris

  Reliable IT systems are a powerful business tool.

  And the combination of Hewlett-Packard products and Microsoft® Windows® 2000 can help companies get the high reliability they need to maximize productivity and customer service. Hewlett-Packard is offering a range of hardware products, software tools and support services that help customers optimize and take full advantage of the reliability features in Windows 2000. The HP offerings include desktop PCs with power protection and servers with hot-swappable components.

  With new corporate desktop PCs from HP and the reliability features in Windows 2000 Professional, workers can protect themselves against power losses and other system failures.

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• End to the 800MHz PIII bottleneck?
  Time: 14:29 EST/19:29 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  Have you gotten your 800MHz Pentium III PC yet? Many consumers have been waiting, and then waiting some more, for PCs configured with Intel Corp.'s 800MHz Pentium III chip ever since its launch in late December. But the wait is apparently over, as PC makers say that Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) processor has been in better supply recently.

  Supplies of the fastest Pentium III chip continue to be tight. But whereas manufacturing lead times were as long as 30 days for PCs using the chip, large direct-PC vendors are now asking customers to wait only one-third that time -- roughly eight to 10 days.

  PC makers attribute the faster time line to greater supplies of the 800MHz processor, introduced Dec. 20.

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• MS moves to mandatory registration
  Time: 14:29 EST/19:29 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  New users of Office 2000 will get a taste of Microsoft Corp.’s latest anti-piracy measure: forced registration.

  The company is inserting a new feature into an upcoming release of its word processing software that will cause the product to malfunction if a person doesn’t register after launching it 50 times. Users of volume licenses, such as those working at big companies, won’t have to register.

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• After Win2000, it's Whistler and Blackcomb
  Time: 14:27 EST/19:27 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  Microsoft Corp. wants all eyes on Windows 2000 when it officially rolls out the product next week. But its Windows development team already has moved on to work on the next two versions of Windows.

  Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is targeting March 2001 to deliver the first full upgrade to Windows 2000, code-named Whistler, according to sources close to the company. The follow-on to Whistler, code-named Blackcomb, is a 2002 or later Windows release.

  Microsoft is looking to one of its executives' favorite retreat destinations, Whistler Resort in British Columbia, as the inspiration for its latest code name series. Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb Mountain are a few hours outside of Seattle.

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• Firms fight for permanent Net tax ban
  Time: 14:25 EST/19:25 GMT News Source: CNet News Posted By: Alex Harris

  Business members of a congressional Internet tax panel urged Congress to extend for five years the ban on taxes that single out the Internet and to permanently ban taxes on access to cyberspace.

  On the question of state sales taxes, the six business representatives of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce said yesterday that Congress should establish a new definition for what constitutes "physical presence" in a state.

  The Supreme Court has ruled that states can only collect taxes on remote sales--catalog or Internet--if a company has such a presence within their borders.

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• ActiveWin: Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB - Review
  Time: 12:16 EST/17:16 GMT News Source: Active Network Posted By: Robert Stein

  Julien has posted his review of Studio PCTV USB by Pinnacle Systems. Here is a snippet:

  Pinnacle is a German manufacturer known for its great professional-capture video cards such as the Miro Video DC30 series. The corporate has just released a new general public device formerly named: ‘Studio PCTV USB’. This strange green box will allow you to watch TV on your computer and even to listen radio in some countries. It also offers basic video capture features. It is big red button is a ‘capture’ button: one click on it and the current displayed image is saved on your hard disk. As it’s USB it’s really easy to install.

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• Microsoft Windows 2000 Section Updated
  Time: 13:08 EST/15:08 GMT News Source: Active Network Posted By: Robert Stein

  We have updated our Microsoft Windows 2000 Section; we have updated Microsoft's list of Windows 2000 Certified Programs, and added a few questions to our Windows 2000 Frequently Asked Questions Page. Be sure to check them out!

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• Microsoft Incorporates New Anti-Piracy Technologies In Windows 2000, Office 2000
  Time: 09:18 EST/14:18 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has taken steps to make counterfeit software easier to identify and to assist honest resellers and OEM system builders in distributing genuine software by introducing new anti-piracy technologies as well as an Internet monitoring program. The new technologies, the most significant of which is an edge-to-edge hologram CD-ROM, will be included in retail and OEM System Builder versions of both the MicrosoftÒ WindowsÒ 2000 operating system and the next service release of Microsoft Office 2000.

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• Microsoft Alleges That Four Massachusetts Businesses Distributed Counterfeit Software
  Time: 09:17 EST/14:17 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. today announced that the company has filed software piracy lawsuits against four Massachusetts companies. The lawsuits, alleging copyright violations and trademark infringements, were filed against software distributors for allegedly distributing counterfeit and/or infringing Microsoft^® software.

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• Bill Gates Speaks to Local Minority High-School Students
  Time: 09:16 EST/14:16 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect, today urged a group of about 100 students in Seattle public high schools to work hard in school so they are prepared to take advantage of the opportunities they have as members of "Generation I," the first generation raised on the Internet.

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• Allegiance Chat Log
  Time: 09:11 EST/14:11 GMT News Source: E-Mail Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Allegiance Vault has posted a log of last night's moderated Allegiance chat, giving a progress report on development of Microsoft's space combat game, currently in open beta.

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• IBM gets prime seat on Windows 2000 bandwagon
  Time: 05:58 EST/10:58 GMT News Source: InfoWorld Posted By: Byron Hinson

  UNDERSCORING ITS commitment to Windows 2000 as a strategically important platform for the enterprise, IBM on Wednesday announced a new technical support initiative that helps users and developers to better scale and integrate the upcoming Microsoft operating system into multi-platform environments. 

  Over the next few weeks IBM also will roll out two new Netfinity 4-way symmetrical multiprocessing servers (SMP) servers, the models 7100 and 7600, that will run Windows 2000. The new systems both will feature several technical elements that are integral to the company's X-Architecture, including chip-kill correction, which supposedly provides memory capabilities that are up to 100 times more reliable than existing ECC (error-correcting code) memory.

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• Microsoft's fortune rides on Windows 2000, analysts say
  Time: 05:57 EST/10:57 GMT News Source: InfoWorld Posted By: Byron Hinson

  WITH THE launch of its Windows 2000 operating system on Feb. 17, Microsoft will try to move up the software food chain by beginning its assault on the lucrative midrange server business. At stake for the company will be its ability to keep growing at the fairytale rate it has enjoyed for the past half decade, industry analysts said. 

  The new OS will also play a key role in determining whether Microsoft retains its dominant position in the computing industry in the years to come, analysts said. As the focus of IT computing shifts from local networks to the Internet, Microsoft will try to hawk Windows 2000 as a reliable platform on which companies can build e-commerce sites and other types of Web-based applications and services. 

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• Windows 2000 Security: An Oxymoron?
  Time: 05:49 EST/10:49 GMT News Source: WinNT Mag Posted By: Byron Hinson

  If you’ve been reading some of the headlines lately, there was a small piece on Microsoft sandwiched in between all the "AOL and Time/Warner Buy Everything" articles. The source for such an article and others like it is at the Microsoft site, and is titled "Microsoft Unveils Security Commitment." That resounding thud you just heard is the sound of Microsoft’s words hitting the floor.

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• EU antitrust probe into Win2k threatens MS core strategy
  Time: 05:48 EST/10:48 GMT News Source: The Register Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Today's announcement of an EU antitrust investigation into Windows 2000 presents Microsoft with a potential nightmare scenario, and ends Europe's policy of 'armed neutrality' when it comes to Redmond. Although sporadic complaints have emerged in individual European countries, the European Commission has for the past couple of years been determinedly sitting on its hands in accordance with its arrangement with the US antitrust authorities, who were until today lead member on Microsoft.

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• Microsoft Outlines New Win2K Security Strategy
  Time: 05:47 EST/10:47 GMT News Source: Win NT Mag Posted By: Byron Hinson

  On January 18, Brian Valentine, Microsoft’s senior vice president in charge of Windows 2000 (Win2K) and Windows 98, outlined Microsoft’s new Win2K security strategy in an address at the RSA 2000 security conference. At one point, Valentine announced that Win2K will ship worldwide with 128-bit encryption. He explained that Microsoft saw Win2K as a chance to respond to the security crisis that the rise of the Internet has created. He claimed that Microsoft is trying to present an industry call to action and raise the bar with regard to security.

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• Skinz Contest 2000
  Time: 05:47 EST/10:47 GMT News Source: E-Mail Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Stardock and BetaNews have once again teamed up to offer skinnres from around the world to show off their skinning skills.

  Contest 2000, which is at http://www.efront.com/contest/ provides WindowBlinds skinners the chance to enter in up to 6 skins total in two categories (3 in each category). There are significant cash prizes being offered for those skins that are voted to be the best.

  The two categories are:

  * Best Universal Skin. This is the type of skin that you would imagine people running system wide. Good examples of these are WinAqua, Windows3000, Athenda, Elegant.

  * Best Creative Skin. This is a tougher type of skin and there are no good examples of this type. WindowBlinds supports plug-ins (i.e. you can actually integrate programs into your skin such as have a clock or a stock ticker or a mediaplayer control or something else in the GUI). There are no good examples of this type of skin because other than the clock plug-in, no one has used these powerful features. Other advanced features of WindowBlinds include translucent scrollbars, layers, conditional buttons (see C-net Extended), etc. These skins would probably not be used universally on a system but on a per application basis.

  Visit http://www.efront.com/contest/  to check out the contest so far or to enter your own skin. WindowBlinds itself can be downloaded from http://www.stardock.com

  If you like to create skins or customize your GUI with skins you create, here's a great chance to show off your skills. This contest will help decide who are some of the best skinners amongst the millions of WindowBlinds users!

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• Microsoft Corp. Will Cooperate Fully with European Commission Request For Information on Windows 2000
  Time: 14:51 EST/19:51 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. confirmed today that it received from the European Commission a request for information relating to certain features in Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000 operating system. Microsoft officials said the company will cooperate fully with the Commission's request for information and that the investigation will in no way interfere with the commercial availability of Windows 2000, which was released to computer makers, retail software packagers and other manufacturers on Dec. 15 and will be officially launched Feb. 17.

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• StarLancer Trailer Released
  Time: 11:09 EST/16:09 GMT News Source: E-Mail Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft today announced the availability of the first downloadable trailer for StarLancer, the highly anticipated new game being developed by Erin and Chris Roberts, creators of the popular Wing Commander and Privateer series. StarLancer is a futuristic space combat game that combines the action of a first-person space shooter with the drama and intrigue of a classic air combat movie. The downloadable trailer is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/games/da/starlancer/

  In StarLancer, countries from around the world, including the United States, Russia, and Great Britain, have formed strategic alliances and now battle for control of Earth, Venus and other planets across the solar system. As part of a newly formed, ragtag aviation unit, the 45th Volunteers Squadron, players must prove themselves in this struggle for freedom of the solar system.

  Read more in our StarLancer section.

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• EU to investigate Windows 2000
  Time: 10:58 EST/15:58 GMT News Source: The Register Posted By: Byron Hinson

  The European Union said today that it will investigate Microsoft over alleged market dominance from the launch of W2k. The investigation is on the basis that the launch of W2k will give Microsoft an unfair advantage in Europe, not only in the software market but in electronic commerce too. The software giant has four weeks to respond to enquiries that enforcement officials at the EU have instigated.

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• New Windows Me expected in May
  Time: 10:57 EST/15:57 GMT News Source: News.com Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft's next consumer operating system, dubbed Windows Me, could debut as early as May 26, according to a new report. Windows Me--short for Windows Millennium Edition--is the final Microsoft operating system based on the company's Windows 9x line designed for home users. The launch is set for late May, according to Paul Thurrott, publisher of the WinInfo, a Windows user newsletter. International versions will ship to a variety of countries by early July, according to the report.

  Previously referred to by its internal code-name Millennium, Microsoft announced last week that it would release the operating system under the new name. The software will be available at retail stores for PC users to purchase an upgrade and will be loaded on new consumer computers.

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• Microsoft and ITRAN Communications Join to Create A No New Wires Solution in the Home
  Time: 10:44 EST/15:44 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with ITRAN Communications Ltd., a leading developer of robust and low-cost hardware components and solutions for the growing power-line communications industry. The agreement will accelerate the uniform implementation and deployment of simple and dependable power line carrier (PLC) home networking technologies, enabling a wide variety of smart objects to be connected to each other easily.

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• Microsoft Unveils Digital Broadcast Manager to Power Pay-Per-View Video And Audio on the Internet
  Time: 10:43 EST/15:43 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Digital Broadcast Manager (Developer Preview), software that makes it possible for companies to sell pay-per-view and pay-per-download content via the Internet. Digital Broadcast Manager rapidly transforms any Web site with digital media content into an e-commerce solution. It offers a secure, easy-to-manage system for distributing digital audio and video content in the MicrosoftÒ Windows MediaÔ Format and makes it easy to create digital media storefronts on the Web. This solution is the next step in the evolution of the pay-per-view industry.

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• Windows 2000 Server Sees Rapid Internet Adoption
  Time: 10:42 EST/15:42 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. today announced that the Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000 Server operating system has seen rapid adoption among Web sites. According to Netcraft's recent Web Server Survey, the Windows server platform is the leading platform for Web sites among Fortune 500 companies. The survey also revealed that the Windows server platform powers more secure e-commerce sites than any other operating system. In addition, the survey highlighted strong customer satisfaction in the Windows server platform, noting that customers of Windows are less likely to switch to other operating systems.

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• Microsoft and RadioShack Offer Affordable, Award-Winning MSN Internet Access Service to Consumers
  Time: 10:41 EST/15:41 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. has begun to provide immediate consumer benefits resulting from its alliance with RadioShack by announcing compelling rebates on personal computers and other merchandise when those purchases are combined with a subscription to MSN™ Internet Access. In addition, MSN has announced a program with Compaq Computer Corp. to apply rebates toward Presario computers purchased in participating RadioShack stores and other retail outlets. Consumers who sign up for a 36-month contract with MSN Internet Access may receive a $400 rebate to apply toward the purchase of RadioShack products.* Consumers will be able to sign up for MSN Internet Access in up to 5,000 participating RadioShack locations across the nation. This offer helps propel the MSN vision of the Everyday Web by enabling millions of Americans who shop at RadioShack to get connected to the Internet.

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• KPMG Consulting and Microsoft launch new "Dot.com" Program
  Time: 10:40 EST/15:40 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  KPMG Consulting LLC, a leading Internet integration services company, announced today that, together with Microsoft Corp., it is launching a new program for e-business driven customers. The program offers a streamlined approach to the development, integration and deployment of dot.com business solutions and provides support and development capabilities based on the Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000 operating system, the foundation for the Microsoft Business Internet initiative. The announcement comes as Microsoft gears up for its worldwide launch of Windows 2000 on February 17. KPMG Consulting will hire 500 professionals over the next 18 months who will be dedicated to a newly formed practice called the "Microsoft Dot.com practice."

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• The cross-site scripting scam
  Time: 15:14 EST/20:14 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Last week's sudden announcement of a security breach called cross-site scripting seemed oddly suspicious. I'm now convinced it's part of a not-so-subtle effort to scare people away from general Web browsing and to get them to lock into so-called safe places such as America Online or MSN.com. It's the odd timing of the announcement, along with certain proclamations made by Microsoft Corp., that makes me suspicious.

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• Microsoft Accelerates Online Learning With Support for eLearning Specification
  Time: 15:12 EST/20:12 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. and leaders of the eLearning community today announced support for Learning Resource Interchange (LRN), the first commercial implementation of the Instructional Management Systems (IMS) Content and Management Systems Specification developed by the eLearning industry and the IMS Global Learning Consortium. LRN is an XML-based schema that defines course content, allowing organizations and eLearning providers to easily create and manage compatible online learning content. LRN helps customers maximize their investment in eLearning by enabling a wider range of interoperable content and applications than currently exists today.

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• Windows 2000 Section Updated
  Time: 12:51 EST/17:51 GMT News Source: Active Network Posted By: Robert Stein

  We have made several updates to our Windows 2000 Section; We have posted Microsoft's latest Windows 2000 Hardware Compatability List (2 MB), updated the Windows 2000 History Page, and updated our Windows 2000 FAQ.

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• ActiveWin: Delta Force 2 - Review
  Time: 11:02 EST/16:02 GMT News Source: Active Network Posted By: Byron Hinson

  I have posted my review of Delta Force 2 by Novalogic. Here is a snippet:

  I'll begin with the single player game mode it is probably as straightforward as they come. You are a member of a small team usually you are joined by two or three other soldiers on each mission, but success is always dependant on you not the others, if you die that is it - you will have to start the mission again as you cannot take control of any of the soldiers on the team other than the one you begin with.

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• Santana and Cheech Marin To Perform at Microsoft Windows 2000 Equal Access Concert Benefiting the Hispanic Scholarship Fund
  Time: 09:22 EST/14:22 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Today, Microsoft Corporation announced that ten-time Grammy Award nominee, Carlos Santana, and legendary comedian and co-star of CBS' NASH BRIDGES, Cheech Marin, would cap off the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 launch-day activities in an Equal Access charity concert benefiting the Hispanic Scholarship Fund to help bridge the digital divide in under-represented communities. The Equal Access benefit concert, exclusively for attendees of the IDG Windows 2000 Conference and Expo, will be hosted by the Windows 2000 team and 17 of the largest technology companies in the world. The concert will take place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on February 17th in San Francisco, CA at 8:00pm PST in conjunction with the worldwide launch of Microsoft's next-generation operating system for businesses, Windows 2000.

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• Atomic Pop and Microsoft Marketing Alliance Brings Entertainment Catalog to Windows Media
  Time: 09:21 EST/14:21 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. and Atomic Pop, a leading provider of online music, today announced the formation of a strategic relationship through which Atomic Pop will make its entire catalog of music, video, live broadcasts and original radio and television programming available in the Microsoft® Windows Media™ format. The Atomic Pop catalog includes thousands of tracks and full albums from such artists as Public Enemy, Ice T, the Breeders, the Pixies, Everclear and Built to Spill.

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• Microsoft Announces New Service to Protect Children's Online Privacy
  Time: 09:20 EST/14:20 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Expanding its ongoing initiatives to provide children with a positive, safe, online experience, Microsoft Corp. today announced it will soon make available Microsoft^® Kids Passport, a new service that helps parents protect their children's privacy online by deciding whether children may use participating online services that collect and/or disclose personal information. The service will give parents an easy way to determine whether their children should be permitted to disclose personally identifiable information to the online businesses that participate in the Kids Passport program. Kids Passport also offers e-businesses an easily implemented

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• One arrested during Microsoft protest
  Time: 08:27 EST/13:27 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Police in riot gear arrested one man among a group of about 60 protesters marching to Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) headquarters Monday, a police spokeswoman said. The man, whose name has not been released, was booked for disorderly conduct after he stepped off the sidewalk and into the street during the march, Redmond police said. The protesters, led by the Direct Action Network (DAN), marched along city sidewalks that extend inside the sprawling Microsoft campus carrying signs protesting corporate greed and an effigy of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Some 2 dozen heavily armed police arrived as the march began, but the protest was peaceful, aside from the lone arrest, eyewitnesses said.

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• EMC offers 99.9 percent uptime guarantee for Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
  Time: 03:56 EST/08:56 GMT News Source: Microsoft Daily News Posted By: Alex Harris

  Microsoft and EMC have joined forces to build and deploy reliable, high-performance solutions based on the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 platform.

  EMC, a Fortune 500 company specializing in enterprise storage systems, and Microsoft last week announced an alliance to help companies deploy highly reliable and manageable business solutions with Windows 2000 Server. The companies aim to combine Windows 2000, storage solutions and services from EMC, and server solutions from EMC's Data General division to meet the needs of demanding environments and applications.

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• Windows 2000 Professional speaks language of lower TCO with multilingual user interface
  Time: 03:54 EST/08:54 GMT News Source: Microsoft Daily News Posted By: Alex Harris

  Doing business in more than one language is difficult enough for most companies.

  They don't need the added complication of using multiple versions of an operating system. That's what Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional, MultiLanguage Version is designed to prevent. The operating system allows users to change the language of the user interface, choosing from any one of 24 languages. Menus, help files and dialog boxes can be switched to Japanese, for example, or Italian or Swedish. Plus, users can create, edit and print documents in hundreds of different languages. That can mean significant cost savings for companies that do work in more than one language. It also means easier system management: Instead of deploying and managing multiple language versions of an operating system, a company can use a single platform for the entire enterprise.

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• LiveWare 3 Installation Instructions for Windows 2000
  Time: 03:45 EST/08:45 GMT News Source: NT Compatible Posted By: Alex Harris

  Anthony Toste has updated his Liveware 3 installation instructions for Windows 2000 which allow soundfonts, 4 speaker setup and EAX under Windows 2000. To download the installation instructions then click here. 

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• IBM to launch Net-access PCs
  Time: 03:43 EST/08:43 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  Looking to put some meat around its new "EON" strategy, IBM Personal Systems Group (PSG) today previewed a handful of forthcoming products, including an all-in-one PC.

  The division's Edge of the Network (EON) strategy, which resembles a marketing philosophy more than an actual product strategy, calls for the creation of computing devices and services that link users to their networks, the Internet and all of their e-business applications.

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• AMD fires up its 1.1GHz Athlon demo
  Time: 03:41 EST/08:41 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Alex Harris

  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Wednesday one-upped rival Intel Corp. in the chip demo wars, showing off an upcoming 1GHz-plus Athlon processor.

  AMD (NYSE:AMD) pulled the wraps off a 1.1GHz version of the next-generation Athlon processor with its forthcoming Thunderbird processor core at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference in San Francisco. AMD showed the 1.1GHz Athlon chip in response to Intel's (Nasdaq:INTC) discussion of a forthcoming 1GHz Pentium III chip.

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• How a basic attack crippled Yahoo
  Time: 03:39 EST/08:39 GMT News Source: CNet News Posted By: Alex Harris

  Lesson of the day: If they can shut down Yahoo, they can shut down anybody. An apparently coordinated attack today overwhelmed one of the Web's most popular destinations, once again calling into question the vulnerability of Internet companies. (See related story.)

  "Our engineers had just not seen anything like this before," said Laurie Priddy, executive vice president of systems and applications for GlobalCenter, Yahoo's Web hosting service, which bore the brunt of the attack. "It would take a concerted effort, a group of people or some sophisticated software to generate that level of traffic."

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• Microsoft E-mails Skin Artists For Help
  Time: 17:52 EST/22:52 GMT News Source: Beta News Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft e-mailed several WinAmp skin developers late last week for their help with a yet-to-be announced product involving bitmap based skinning. The message reveals Microsoft is looking for skin artists who want to work as contractors for a future project, which may be related to a previously reported project which involves an extensible window manager for future versions of Windows.

  The e-mail, from Microsoft Program Manager Steve Falcon, reads, "Microsoft is looking for skin artists to work on a contract basis on an unannounced product. The product is unrelated to WinAMP but supports bitmap-based skinning. Your name was selected at random from published WinAMP skin designers. If you are interested, please reply with your name, address, phone number, availability, and links to skins or your other graphic designportfolio. If all goes well, I will contact you to discuss the project, your interest it, logistics, terms, and compensation, etc. Since the product we are working on is unannounced, I can't tell more about it without a confidential disclosure agreement. But I can tell you it's very COOL! Please forward to other good skin designers you know."

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• MS Wants Weaker Consumer Rights
  Time: 17:38 EST/22:38 GMT News Source: Computer Currents Posted By: Byron Hinson

  A number of software high-rollers, including Microsoft Corp, along with some industry associations, are reportedly promoting the passage of country-wide state legislation that would reduce consumer rights for users of purchased or leased software and database information.

  According to a report in today's Los Angeles Times, the drive comes as software companies are eyed as cash cows by local communities, which envision job creation and other economic advantages.

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• Microsoft takes one on the chin
  Time: 15:14 EST/20:14 GMT News Source: ZDNet Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Under the word "spin," my dictionary (Merriam-Webster, 1974) does not include the usage "to change or manipulate public opinion." If it did, however, the definition might use as an example Microsoft's official response to the long-awaited friend-of-the-court brief filed earlier this week by Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, in the Department of Justice's antitrust case against the software giant.

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• Lottery team-up for Gates and Branson
  Time: 09:05 EST/14:05 GMT News Source: BBC Online Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has recruited Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to help win the next licence for the National Lottery. Microsoft will provide the PC technology to sell lottery tickets, not only in shops but also over the internet and through interactive television and mobile phones.

  The deal will put Sir Richard's non-profit People's Lottery on a good footing with barely 12 months before Camelot's licence to run the National Lottery expires.

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• MS pitches twin controller approach for mobile devices
  Time: 08:59 EST/13:59 GMT News Source: The Register Posted By: Byron Hinson

  One of the problems CE (and indeed, numerous other operating systems) faces in penetrating the mobile and appliance markets is that it's not fully real time, although the hardware generally doesn't take too kindly to software chiming in demanding CPU time when inappropriate. But Microsoft may have found an interesting workaround - one that also reduces the chances of your phone handset getting the Blue Screen of Death.

  According to Kevin Dallas, group product manager with Microsoft, at least two foundries are set to introduce silicon with dual on-board controllers aimed at mobile handset manufacturers. The pair are Philips and Wavecom.

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• Microsoft Interix 2.2 Brings UNIX System Capabilities to Windows 2000
  Time: 08:53 EST/13:53 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. today announced it has released to manufacturing Interix 2.2, a complete environment that enables customers to easily run UNIX applications and scripts on the Microsoft^® Windows NT^® and Windows^® 2000 operating systems without rewriting code.

  Interix 2.2 is the first version available for Windows 2000 and a key component of Microsoft's interoperability and application migration strategy for providing interoperability between Windows-based and UNIX systems. Interix 2.2 allows users to take advantage of key benefits of the Windows NT platform, including lower total cost of ownership, easier manageability and access to the vast array of Windows-based applications while leveraging existing UNIX applications.

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• Microsoft Receives Top Honor for Hiring, Accommodating and Creating Accessible Technologies for People With Disabilities
  Time: 08:53 EST/13:53 GMT News Source: Press Release Posted By: Byron Hinson

  Microsoft Corp. today announced that WE Magazine, a lifestyle publication for people with disabilities, has placed Microsoft at the top of its annual Golden Ladder list of companies who demonstrate leadership in hiring and accommodating people with disabilities on the job. Microsoft received this year's top honor not only for its workplace policies and accommodation strategies, but also for the company's efforts in creating accessible technologies and as a founding member of the Able to Work Consortium.