The newest version of IomegaWare provides integrated features that will help you find, format, protect, manage and change settings on your Iomega drives. This version includes drivers that are needed for functionality. You decide other applications you want to download and install. You can download it by clicking here. Please note that localized versions (french, etc.) are already available on localized Iomega FTPs). Here are the top new features:

• These drivers make the drive visible within your operating system. With one copy of IomegaWare installed, your Iomega drives are accessible.
• Integration Into The Operating System. Unique and easily identifiable icons are visible within your desktop.
• Streamlined Install and Smaller Footprint. The IomegaWare installer has been re-designed to be smaller and take up less space on your hard drive.
• CopyDisk. Iomega CopyDisk replaces the default CopyDisk utility found in Windows and adds support for Iomega drives.
• Protect. IomegaWare allows you to set different levels of security protection for your Iomega disks.

Creative corp has just released new updated drivers for their 3d blaster range of boards including the latest GeForce 2 GTS card. This new driver release provides better support for multiple monitors under Windows 98 and improves CRT Monitor Detection. Creative has also posted a new release 4.03 of their Blaster Control software intended to manage 3d blaster boards that fixes some minor bugs. You can download the new drivers and the BlasterControl 4.03 software here.

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Logitech (NASDAQ:LOGIY; Switzerland:LOGN, LOGZ), international market leader in human interface devices that define the way people link to information in business, at home and online, is introducing the first cordless optical trackball – Cordless TrackMan® Wheel. The product was designed to combine the precision that customers have come to expect from Logitech’s optical technology while eliminating desktop cord clutter and providing trackball users with the flexibility to arrange their workspace to suit their individual preferences. Based on Logitech’s patented Marble® optical sensing and award-winning digital radio technology, the new trackball was previewed in February at the CeBIT 2000 Trade Fair in Hannover, Germany. Cordless TrackMan Wheel joins Logitech’s popular family of optical trackballs, which includes the thumb-operated TrackMan® Marble® Wheel, finger-operated TrackMan® Marble® FX, and best-selling Marble® Mouse, a device that "feels like a mouse, works like a trackball." The product is available on retail shelves and at www.logitech.com at a suggested retail price of $79.95.

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I've just posted my DreamWeaver 3.01 & FireWorks 3 review. Here is a snippet of the review:

Macromedia, the worldwide multimedia software focused editor known for its amazing Director software that is used by a lot of software publishers to create multimedia and interactive software, has released a brand new version of its award-winning web editor software formerly named DreamWeaver 3.0. This new release come exactly three years after the initial release of DreamWeaver 1 in 1997. In our Internet connected world designing good looking and professional websites is important, and DreamWeaver 3 is the Macromedia's answer to this need. This new software presented by Macromedia as the Adobe GoLive killer, is web-site building software that'll allow you to create, design, update, manage web pages and websites. It's a professional product intended to be used by professional users even if it's easy enough for home users. One thing is clear with this product: you'll forget all your previous HTML software creator and only use Dreamweaver as it's probably the most powerful editor we've seen yet. The pack we'll review is the Macromedia Studio pack that comes also with FireWorks 3, the Macromedia selection to design high impact graphics to be published on web sites in order to make them more 'stylish'.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $22.96 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, a 16 percent increase over the $19.75 billion reported last year. Net income totaled $9.42 billion. Diluted earnings per share were $1.70, a 20 percent increase compared to $1.42 in fiscal 1999.

For the quarter ended June 30, 2000, diluted earnings per share were $0.44, a 10 percent increase over the $0.40 for the corresponding quarter last year. Revenue and net income were $5.80 billion and $2.41 billion compared to $5.76 billion and $2.20 billion, respectively, for the same quarter last year.

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Microsoft's Windows Media Player 7 has only been out 24 hours and already we have been inundated with reports of problems after installation. These include Windows 2000 no longer loading to CD Burner programs becoming broken afterwards. The worst one currently goes as follows:

Installing Windows Media Player 7 and Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02c and DirectCD 3.01c on Windows 2000. After installing the WMP7 final and restarting your PC, the DirectCD icon on the taskbar will change and when you put your mouse cursor over the icon, you can get the following message "Adaptec DirectCD Wizard, No supported CD-R/CD-RW drive!". It seems to be there is a conflict between the WMP7 CD-burning plugin and DirectCD 3.01c/Easy CD Creator 4.02c. Uninstalling the WMP7 reinstalling it without the CD burning plugin solves the problem. The real funny part is that Adaptec has a press release on their site plugging how good it works with Windows Media Player 7.

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Microsoft's audio format Windows Media Audio gets a double boost this week with the release of Windows Media Player 7 and the availability of tunes from EMI Music in the Windows Media format.

On Monday, EMI begins supporting on its online retail channel more than 96 albums and countless singles in the Windows Media Audio format. Also, DiscoverMusic.com, a provider of song samples for Internet music retailers, will release its 2.5 million song previews in the WMA format.

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Oracle's admission to hiring a private investigating firm to spy on Microsoft brings the reality of business identity theft to the forefront. For identity thieves and ``dumpster divers'' across the country the pickings have never been better. Throughout downtown business centers, office parks and neighborhoods, trash bins are full of documents and papers that have not been properly destroyed.

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Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) and Spain's Telefonica (TEF.MC) on Tuesday announced a joint services deal in which the two giants will use each other's main products -- software and telecommunications. No financial figure was attached to the deal in which Telefonica will employ software developed by Microsoft with special emphasis on call centers, the Internet, mobile telephony and other services.

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Despite the ongoing attempt by the Justice Department to split up the company and the often negative media attention on its chairman, Bill Gates, Microsoft increased its brand value by nearly 24% over the past 12 months through June 1, according to the World's Most Valuable Brands Survey, an annual study conducted by Interbrand, the world's leading brand consultancy.

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Microsoft Corp. MSFT has almost muscled out Coca Cola KO as the world's most valuable brand, according to a survey published on Monday. Despite its troubles with the U.S. Justice Department, Microsoft came in as a close second with its brand valued at $70.2 billion, behind Coca Cola's $72.5 billion value, which was down 13 percent from last year.

The survey, conducted by Interbrand, a New York-based consulting firm, showed technology names like Microsoft, Intel Corp. INTC and Nokia Corp. NOK were strong as a group, but old economy heavy hitters such as General Electric Co. GE , Walt Disney Co. DIS and McDonald's Corp. MCD were also represented in the top 10.

U.S. companies dominated the ranking, holding 42 of the top 75 slots, Interbrand said, but they lost ground in the auto sector, with foreign car companies like Volkswagen , Honda , and Toyota Motor Corp. overshadowing U.S automakers. Interbrand's valuation process looks at future economic earnings, the role of the brand in those earnings and the risk profile of the brand's expected earnings.

Interbrand's top 10: 1. Coca-Cola $72.5 billion 2. Microsoft $70.2 billion 3. IBM <IBM.N> $53.2 billion 4. Intel $39.0 billion 5. Nokia $38.5 billion 6. General Electric $38.1 billion 7. Ford $36.4 billion 8. Disney $33.6 billion 9. McDonald's $27.9 billion 10. AT&T Corp. <T.N> $25.5 billion

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We have posted up an interview with Allen McPheeter the game designer of Microsoft Baseball 2001. Microsoft Baseball 2001 is the first PC-based baseball game that combines the features of the award-winning Baseball Mogul simulation technology with Microsoft's tradition for eye-popping graphics and gameplay. Microsoft Baseball 2001 captures the excitement and intensity of an authentic Major League Baseball game ensuring a grand-slam experience for players of all skill levels.

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For computers running Windows 2000 only. If you downloaded Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 1 (SP1) from the Web between Thursday, July 6, 2000 and Tuesday, July 11, 2000, Microsoft recommends that you install this update today. The original offering of Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 contains a known issue that causes Office® 2000 to display an error message when attempting to access Office Help. This update allows Office Help to be accessed without error.

If you downloaded Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 on July 12, 2000 or later, your computer is not affected by this issue.
Note If you don't know when you downloaded Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1, Microsoft recommends that you install this update.

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Microsoft has finally released Windows Media Player 7 - You can download it direct from us or visit the Microsoft download site.

Note Windows Media Player 7 should NOT be installed on computers running Windows® 95 or Windows NT® 4! If you are using Netscape Navigator 3 or later, you must install the plug-in to use Windows Media Player. Install the plug-in AFTER you install the Player.

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Analysts cautioned against attaching too much importance to the claim by Microsoft Corp. on Monday that its Internet services, MSN, had become the No. 1 worldwide Internet destination for consumers. The company said in a statement that 201 million unique users visited MSN, or Microsoft Services Network during June 2000, according to its own internal data that does not double count users, more than used America Online Inc. or Yahoo Inc.

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Today, on a special edition of Phil Leigh's Multimedia Internet show on RadioWallStreet.com, Phil Leigh interviews Microsoft Corporation Digital Media Division's Group Product Manager Kevin Unangst.

The discussion centers on today's Microsoft and EMI Recorded Music co-announcement of availability of over 100 full-length albums and singles from EMI's catalog in the Microsoft® Windows Media(TM) Format and today's Microsoft announcement of the availability for download at midnight tonight of the final version of Microsoft® Windows Media(TM) Player 7.

This interview is available for on demand listening via this direct link: to http://www.radiowallstreet.com/NASApp/RWS/EventPage?ID=27763 or via www.radiowallstreet.com.

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Despite the enthusiasm for Linux, Microsoft will maintain its dynasty in the client operating environment (COE) market for the foreseeable future. In fact, in 1999 Microsoft Windows NT Workstation revenue growth was larger than the overall market's increase. According to IDC, NT Workstation revenue grew by $1.6 billion while the overall market grew by only $1.53 billion due to product declines that offset Microsoft's growth.

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Julien has posted the review of Adobe LiveMotion 1.0. Here is a snippet of the review:

In our connected world having a nice, animated website is very important to diffuse a professional corporate image, to increase sales and promote new products and to find potential business partners. Adobe the worldwide graphic software maker leader has perfectly understood this emerging need as they've just released brand new software named LiveMotion, which is intended to beat the supremacy of Macromedia Flash 4. LiveMotion 1.0 is an advanced software that'll allow you to draw scenes and to animate them the way you want very easily by using the same Time Editor than in Adobe AfterEffects to set your website in motion. All animations that are produced can be exported into the Macromedia Flash format that'll be recognized by 99% of the today's web-browsers!

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Microsoft Corp. today released Windows Media Technologies 7, the leading platform for authoring, delivering and playing the highest quality digital media. Microsoft^® Windows Media™ Technologies 7 realizes the potential of digital media by providing broadcast-quality video, CD-quality audio, secure content distribution, unmatched reliability and scalability, and an open, easy-to-use and extensible platform ready for the broadband Internet.

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Microsoft Corp. and DiscoverMusic.com today announced that DiscoverMusic.com, the leading provider of song samples for use by Internet music retailers, is now offering in Windows Media™ Format its entire catalog of more than 2.5 million song previews from more than 180,000 albums. Song previews allow online customers to hear samples from an album before they buy. Preview tracks from DiscoverMusic.com are available to consumers now at K-tel International Inc.'s Web site and will be deployed soon by 22 other major online music retailers, including CDNOW Inc. and Virgin Megastore.

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Microsoft Corp. and KPMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of Internet integration services, today announced a joint effort to deliver Dot.Ramp, a solution designed to help buyers and sellers rapidly connect to business-to-business (B2B) digital marketplaces. The solution targets enterprises of all sizes with KPMG Consulting's implementation methodology and technology based on the Microsoft^® .NET platform, which is built on public Internet standards and protocols and utilizes Microsoft's .NET enterprise servers, including the forthcoming BizTalk™ Server 2000.

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EMI Recorded Music and Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of over 100 full-length albums and singles from EMI's catalog in the Microsoft^® Windows Media™ Format -- the largest single release of digital music on the Web by a music company. The move by EMI coincides with the launch of the new Windows Media Player 7, available for download beginning midnight tonight at WindowsMedia.com (http://WindowsMedia.com/). The release by EMI marks the most significant step by a music company to bring mainstream music from multiple genres to consumers over the Internet.

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According to the Gomez™ Summer 2000 Internet Home Buying Scorecard™, an independent survey that evaluated the top 29 online real estate Web sites based on more than 200 specific criteria, the HomeAdvisor™ online real estate service is the "Best Home-Buying Site" on the Internet. The survey was conducted by e-business and consumer authority Gomez Advisors Inc.

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Phew - thought we were going to get the date we posted wrong, but it turns out that it will be the 18th July after all heh:

Microsoft Corp. today announced that the final version of Microsoft^® Windows Media™ Player 7 will be available for download worldwide at midnight tonight PDT from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/ and http://WindowsMedia.com/. The latest release adds even more functionality to the fastest growing and only complete all-in-one media player, integrating new audio-CD-creation technology from Adaptec Inc. and a wide array of new skins and visualizations, including a new "Digital DJ" skin that automates and customizes playback of digital audio and video based on user preferences. Windows Media Player 7 brings digital media to the mainstream for millions of users around the world by offering the easiest-to-use application for their digital media needs.

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It seems from some of your e-mails this morning that some of you have been able to upgrade to the final version of Windows Media Player 7 by the update option in the beta release. Although I'm pretty sure it'll be closed up again now until late tonight, keep a check out. We'll be posting up Windows Media Player 7 Final on the site tonight at 12 AM PDT as we are one of the sites allowed to distribute it.

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Gadzoox® Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZOOX - news), a leading provider of SAN (storage area network) products, today announced that its Capellix(TM) switch has been purchased by Microsoft as part of reference systems for the development labs used at Microsoft for the testing of multi-node clustering for Windows 2000. Microsoft chose the Capellix SAN switch for testing environments because of the switch's affordability, scalability and cost performance. This marks Gadzoox' continued commitment to delivering open, interoperable and scalable solutions for high availability e-Business application environments.

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Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Internet service had 201 million users around the world in June, beating Yahoo! Inc. (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news) and America Online (NYSE:AOL - news) as the most popular network destination, the Wall Street Journal reported in Monday's electronic edition. Microsoft is expected to formally report the figure on Monday, the Journal said.

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After wooing developers to its .NET strategy all week, Microsoft turned its attention to business partners, with President and CEO Steve Ballmer telling the Fusion 2000 audience here that all software will be sold as services, not boxed products, in 10 years.

"You can't just write software," the outspoken Ballmer told one attendee, who asked him if Microsoft planned to become an ASP (application service provider) in the future. "You have to provide a service."

Ballmer outlined Microsoft's goals with .NET, the architecture the company unveiled last month that aims to link all types of devices, from PCs and Palm PCs to cell phones and Tablet PCs, via Web services.

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Microsoft is promising its solutions providers a kindlier, gentler and sleeker software partner. Speaking to a collection of Microsoft solution providers assembled at the company's Fusion 2000 event, Ian Rogoff, Microsoft's vice president of enterprise services and its partner group, said the company is moving to consolidate and simplify its relationships with partners.

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Microsoft unveiled a new suite of tools and programs to support the application service provider (ASP) market during Microsoft Fusion 2000 this weekend. As part of the initiative, the company's ASP partners can leverage new technical resources, partnerships, licensing and certification programs to help them offer customers hosted Microsoft solutions. The company also unveiled a new ASP licensing initiative that it will offer Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000, Exchange 2000 Server and Office 2000 to ASPs who want to deliver them as hosted solutions.

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Microsoft (stock:MSFT) officials on Thursday unveiled the beta version of Small Business Server 2000 and said the release of Exchange 2000 has been further delayed. CEO Steve Ballmer said SBS 2000 will appeal to ASPs and value-added providers for accelerating the deployment of Windows 2000 in the small-business server market. Meanwhile, the wide-scale release of Exchange 2000 has been pushed back until October, officials said. The full Windows DNA fleet will be formally introduced in late September.

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Microsoft held not just one, but two major conferences for business partners last week. Where the PDC Conference in Orlando drilled down on technical tools for development pros, the Fusion show in Atlanta is focusing on new programs meant to help the companies that employ developers make money from Microsoft .Net.

In a keynote speech at Fusion today, Microsoft CEO and President Steve Ballmer acknowledged that Redmond needs to show improvements in areas like marketing, sales, and technical materials. But he also expressed confidence that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will prevail with its current court appeal.

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