We will be actively updating AskAW again and we need some people to help us! The volunteer positions will include answering AskAW questions. Your not under any obligation to keep answering questions but if you are inactive for 3 or more weeks we will remove you from the staff.

You will be given access to a private community on MSN where we answer the questions. While nothing will be given in return for this we have been known to give the top helpers free POP3 accounts (email addresses). Your name will also be shown on our AskAW staff page.

If you are interested or would like more information on becoming a volunteer email us at dennis@activewin.com and we will be happy to hear from you.

At this time we aren't accepting questions for AskAW we are only asking for volunteers. Later this week we will post information on obtaining help for your question(s).

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No surprises here, but Internet Explorer 5.5 has gone gold a week before Windows Millennium (Windows Me). Build 3406 seems to be the build that will be released to the web pretty soon. As expected - Microsoft has removed the links to the preview version's details from their server so we could get the released to the web gold version of Internet Explorer 5.5 as early as next week.

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Microsoft will demonstrate the functionality of a pre-release version of NetStore's Web Administration Service, at TechEd in Orlando on 8 June 2000 and in Amsterdam from 4-7 July 2000. Code named Jupiter, this service is designed to enable reseller and customer mail administrators to securely administer NetStore's ASP hosted MS Exchange services from any PC with a web browser.

The service will significantly benefit ASPs in effectively meeting the daily administrative needs of their customers. NetStore's Web Administration Service includes the ability to add new customers, users, distribution lists, and to review contract history, features that conventional hosting systems have not facilitated in the past.

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As the legal battle over Microsoft Corp.'s right to integrate technologies into its programs and operating systems drags on, the company is forging full steam ahead with the next very tightly integrated version of Windows.

Only one day before Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his final judgment in the Department of Justice vs. Microsoft antitrust case, Microsoft released to testers what might be the final beta release of its Windows Millennium Edition product.

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Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer welcomed on Friday an offer from the U.S. Justice Department for more talks aimed at settling their antitrust dispute. ``We would still love that opportunity,'' Ballmer told a news conference during a ``European Business Summit'' organized by Belgium's employers' federation.

``We would love to settle this case. We were unable to in the last round discussion. It would not be appropriate to comment further at this time,'' Ballmer said, referring to earlier talks aimed at reaching a settlement which collapsed in April.

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The Microsoft Corp. case and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling center on Windows, leaving the future of Pocket PC, the operating system for handhelds, up in the air.

There is the potential for Pocket PC, Microsoft's updated Windows CE platform, to escape the Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) product hierarchy, develop more quickly and take a stronger position in the handheld market. It could also lose the confidence of the shrinking number of hardware manufacturers currently supporting it

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If you saw people walking up to a shark that was lying in the bottom of a fishing boat and kicking it in the head, you'd do well to warn them, "Careful! It's not dead yet!"

By the same token, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) may have been hooked and landed by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling Wednesday, but it's not yet dead (or even unconscious). The higher-court fishing wardens may yet require Jackson to throw his catch back in the water, and software developers may decline to eat the entrée even if it's served.

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Forget due process arguments. Forget the harsh tone of his final memorandum and order -- where he called Microsoft "untrustworthy," "disingenuous" and "guilty of antitrust violations."

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's biggest mistake: He bought into the government's argument that Microsoft Office is the platform most likely to rival Microsoft Windows.

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A day after a federal judge ordered his company split in two, Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday choked up and got teary-eyed -- while handing out scholarships to poor minority students who sang the software mogul's praises. Gates, looking relaxed and appearing with his wife Melinda, announced the first batch of scholarships to be handed out under a 20-year, $1 billion programme to help a total of 20,000 students pay for college.

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Microsoft Corp., having lost a major round in its antitrust case, is appealing to the court of public opinion. Company co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates will once again be featured in a television ad, to be aired starting Sunday, extolling the virtues of Microsoft technology and its commitment to its customers, without directly addressing the antitrust case.

``The next generation of software is being developed right here,'' a sweater-clad Gates says in the ad, talking directly to the camera while music plays in the background.

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You boot up Microsoft Windows and click on the Microsoft Internet Explorer and call up the Bill Gates Net Worth Page. The page is not sponsored by Microsoft. But every 15 minutes it updates what Gates is worth based on the current price of his Microsoft stock. He owns not quite 742 million shares.

At 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Gates is worth $51,134,342,368.75. But then the stock slips a little. At 4:30 he is worth $51,041,623,706.25. In 15 minutes, he loses nearly $93 million.

This is the wonder and the horror of Bill Gates. The wonder of how one man's ideas can transform the world. The horror of how one man's wealth can be so vast that he can drop $93 million without a twitch.

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We have posted up our second ActiveWin interview in a new section that will hopefully fill up with more interviews over the coming weeks and months with various people who work for Microsoft in the games, software and hardware departments. Our second interview is with Mike Groesch, he is Microsoft SideWinder Program Manager.

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Justice Department antitrust chief Joel Klein said Thursday that the government was ready to negotiate with Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) if the negotiations are ''meaningful'' and deal with the company's violations.

Klein told a news conference with Attorney General Janet Reno that while settlement is ``always the preferred course...it's also imperative that a settlement meaningfully address the harm that's occurred to this market.''

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Julien has posted his review of Microsoft's Cordless WheelMouse. Here is a snippet from the review:

Microsoft started manufacturing mice a long time ago, and each year or so they release new innovative hardware that helps users better enjoy the computing world. Microsoft clears up your desktop with the Microsoft Cordless Wheel mouse. It’s a cordless mouse that works with digital radio frequency.  The mouse also comes with a wheel to help you scroll and zoom.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the immediate availability of the Microsoft^® Outlook^® E-mail Security Update, a significant security enhancement to the Outlook messaging and collaboration client that can help prevent the spread and impact of computer e-mail viruses. The update, which now includes customization features for administrators based on feedback from customers, partners and security experts, is available free of charge for download from the Office Update Web site at http://www.officeupdate.com/ (connect-time charges may apply). Microsoft strongly recommends that all users of Outlook download this update to help protect themselves against the growing problem of malicious e-mail viruses.

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David Harper faces the same challenge as many other network administrators. He needs a firewall to protect records within the system he oversees, as well as ways to conserve networking bandwidth and provide secure access away from the office. The solution also needs to do all of these things without gobbling up too much of his system's resources or his time.

That's why Harper, network administrator for a Washington State Agency, got excited when he heard about Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 (ISA Server). The new product, which is still in beta review, is designed to meet the firewall and cache needs of administrators such as Harper.

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Gains in shares of Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) boosted European trade in U.S. stocks on Thursday and index futures pointed to a stronger opening on Wall Street, dealers said.

June futures for the S&P were up 5.0 points to 1,477.0 by 1020 GMT, several points above fair value to indicate initial gains for the Dow Jones industrial average. The Nasdaq June future was 53.25 points higher at 3,787.

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The European Commission said on Thursday it was too early to predict the implications of a U.S. court ruling that Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) must be split in two for its own antitrust investigation into the software giant.

``Whatever happens, it will obviously have implications for our investigation. But we have to see what the final ruling is first,'' spokeswoman Amelia Torres told a news briefing.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled on Wednesday that Microsoft should be broken in two and labelled it ``untrustworthy'' for abusing its dominant position in the personal computer operating system market.

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The ruling by a U.S. federal judge to break up Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) generated big interest but little concern in Asia. Main stock markets were mixed today and analysts played down the impact on the region's companies.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Wednesday gave Microsoft four months to devise a plan to divide itself into two parts, declaring the software giant had violated U.S. antitrust laws and that it had ``proved untrustworthy in the past.''

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Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it was seeking a stay of the implementation of a U.S. court ruling that it must be split in two. ``We will be appealing and also seeking a stay of this decision so the appeal can move forward without harm to consumers and Microsoft,'' Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told reporters, in his first reaction to the antitrust ruling.

District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Wednesday ruled that Microsoft be split into an operating systems business, managing its Windows software, and an applications business managing other software products.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said in an interview published on Thursday that Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) had credibility problems in his courtroom that contributed to his decision to break the company in two and impose stiff restrictions on its business practices.

``I had to make judgements about the credibility of witnesses, and I found some of them more credible than others,'' Jackson told the Wall Street Journal. He declined to cite specific instances, the newspaper said.

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Undaunted by a federal judge's order to break Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) in two, company co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates insists the computer software giant has not broken antitrust laws and promises an appeal that could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court. ``This is the beginning of a new chapter in this case,'' Gates said. ``We will be appealing this decision, and we believe we have a very strong case on appeal.''

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Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) President Jonathan Zuck expressed alarm about a federal judge's decision to split Microsoft and said that the court has ignored the voices of technology firms and consumers in his ill-conceived ruling.

``It's hard to imagine a worse scenario for technology development in America,'' said Mr. Zuck. ``Technology firms across the United States and consumers everywhere are the losers with the Judge's rubber stamping of the government's scheme. It will set a negative precedent for technology development for years to come. IT firms will be peering over their shoulders not on the lookout for their robust competitors, but for government regulation creeping up behind them.''

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Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday vowed to appeal a federal judge's ruling to break the software giant into two parts, saying the company had a strong case.

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who has ruled Microsoft was an abusive monopoly, minutes earlier on Wednesday ordered the split to prevent the world's biggest software company from committing further antitrust violations.

``We will be appealing this decision, and we believe we have a very strong case on appeal. We believe this ruling is inconsistent with the past decisions by the Appeals Court, with fundamental fairness, and with the reality of the marketplace,'' Gates said in a statement on Microsoft's Web site.

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RealNames, the market leader in Internet Keyword navigation, today announced The ruling in the Microsoft case Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson splits Microsoft into two parts of differing size:

Operating System Business: All Microsoft Windows operating systems, including: Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, the mobile operating system Pocket PC and upcoming operating systems Windows Millennium Edition, and Whistler, the code-name for an operating system that merges the consumer and business editions of Windows.

-Applications Business: This is a catch-all term for everything else. All Microsoft applications are here, including Microsoft Office. It also includes Internet software, like the Internet Explorer browser and Outlook Express e-mail program. ``Middleware,'' the programs that run on networks like BackOffice, SQL Server and IIS are here as well. This is also the place for Microsoft's many other holdings, such as games, hardware (keyboards, mice, joysticks and others), the Microsoft Press book publisher, MSNBC, the Microsoft Network, Media Player, Slate, Expedia, and Hotmail.

The order also places certain conduct restrictions on Microsoft, such as barring it from entering exclusive deals with other companies and maintaining control of the Windows desktop's appearance when selling an operating system pre-installed through a hardware vendor.

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RealNames, the market leader in Internet Keyword navigation, today announced that it condemns the US Government's decision to prosecute Microsoft and the court's decision to break up the company.

According to Keith Teare, founder and CEO of RealNames Corporation, ``Has anybody considered what this means for Microsoft's partners and the future of technology? RealNames is a start-up with technologies that improve the Internet experience for consumers through a natural language navigation system, using Internet Keywords instead of lengthy web addresses. Microsoft embraced our open standards-based architecture in March 2000 because it makes perfect sense for consumers to use Internet Keywords within MSN and Internet Explorer. The service is already available in the United States, Germany, the UK, Spain, France and will soon be available in Japan, Korea and China. Without Microsoft it could take years to deliver Internet Keywords globally. ''

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The landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) may be headed toward the U.S. Supreme Court, but in all likelihood it would be taken up later rather than sooner.

Now that District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has ordered the software giant split in two -- and with Microsoft set to appeal -- the federal government will have to decide whether to then try to take the case directly to the nation's highest court, bypassing the U.S. appeals court.

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U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said on Wednesday Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) had ``proved untrustworthy'' and was ``unwilling to accept'' the company broke the law. His comments accompanied his order to break Microsoft into two companies.

Key points of the judge's order are as follows:
-the split into two companies will last for 10 years;
-restrictions on Microsoft's business conduct to start in 90
days;
-Microsoft must provide greater access to its Windows source
code;
 -Microsoft must submit its plan to comply with the breakup

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A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered the world's biggest software company to be split in two in a final ruling aimed at preventing Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) from committing further antitrust violations.

No breakup of the company is imminent. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has said the company would remain intact until the appeals process is exhausted and Microsoft has vowed to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

If the judgment is upheld, it would be the harshest antitrust action taken against a U.S. corporation since AT&T agreed to spin off the ``baby bell'' regional phone companies in 1982.

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The antitrust laws that the U.S. government has wielded against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) aim to protect consumers from monopolists and allow competition to flourish.

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's expected order on Wednesday would, if it stands up on appeal, lead to the first breakup of a major U.S. corporation since AT&T agreed to spin off the ``baby bell'' regional telephone companies in 1982.

The law on which the Microsoft case is based was written by Sen. John Sherman, an Ohio Republican and brother of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, to combat industrial giants in the oil, steel and railroad industries at the end of the 19th Century.

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Start getting prepared for Windows 2000 with the Microsoft Readiness Framework (MRF) Skills Manager Tool 3.0. The tool enables individuals to quickly ramp up on emerging Microsoft products and technologies. Version 3.0 with enhanced features provides personalized learning plans and resources targeted at the competencies needed for Windows® 2000 Server Active Directory and Windows 2000 Professional Desktop Deployment. As new scenarios are developed, an updated version of Skills Manager will be released.

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Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) co-founder Paul Allen has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 2 million common shares of the software giant, valued at more than $128 million.

Allen -- one of Microsoft's biggest shareholders with a 4.1 percent stake as of May 23 -- made the filing on June 1, before the judge in the government's antitrust case announced on Wednesday he planned to release his final decision in the matter later in the afternoon.

According to Allen's filing, Microsoft has 5.103 billion shares outstanding. The filing was released on Wednesday by the SEC.

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The judge in the Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) antitrust case said he will release his final decision at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, which is widely expected to include breaking the company in two.

``The court will issue its memorandum and order and final judgement,'' the court said in an announcement. ``Copies of the decision will be made available to the public, in both electronic and paper form, beginning at 3 p.m.''

District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found in April that Microsoft's behavior broke antitrust laws. His order would be aimed at preventing future antitrust violations.

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India's Satyam Computer Services Ltd said on Wednesday it had formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) to provide Web and enterprise integration application deployment solutions to U.S. public sector customers.

The agreement is initially with Microsoft Federal Consulting Services to provide solutions using Windows DNA 2000 technology, it said. Windows DNA 2000 is Microsoft's platform for rapidly building and deploying next-generation e-commerce, line-of-business and Web solutions that integrate with customers, partners and existing applications.

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The Microsoft suit is likely to grind on for some time. Meanwhile, other monopolies grow.  The weather here in the Northeast is early spring but the market action is decidedly summer-like, and there is not much on the calendar.

I haven't been commenting on every twist of the Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) remedy phase because, frankly, all this lawyerly posturing bores me to death. We all know Microsoft is not going to deal seriously with Judge Jackson; we all know Judge Jackson had his mind made up a long time ago, and we all know that what really matters is what happens in the appellate division.

The one thing we are learning that is mildly interesting is that it is likely to have to grind through there rather than go express to the Supreme Court, which under the leadership of Judge Rehnquist is not keen on promoting itself into a leading role.

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For those of you with a subscription to MSDN who can't wait a few more weeks for the gold version of Windows Millennium Edition, the Release Candidate 1 has been released onto MSDN's subscribers download section.

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Microsoft has warned open source developers off using its ASF streaming media format. The author of VirtualDub, an open source video capture and editing package which reverse engineered the ASF format, has dropped ASF support after a call from Microsoft's Windows Media group.

Avery Lee, the author of Virtual Dub, says he received "a polite phone call from a fellow at Microsoft who works in the Windows Media group. He informed me that Microsoft has intellectual property rights on the ASF format and told me that, although I had reverse engineered it, the implementation was still illegal since it infringed on Microsoft patents."

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With final arguments in hand, a judge overseeing the historic Microsoft Corp. antitrust case may be ready to rule on whether to split the computer software giant into two separate companies.

On Tuesday, Microsoft attorneys filed a fresh response to the Justice Department's breakup plan. The company's filing - a day earlier than expected - cleared the way for the U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who sits in Washington, D.C., to rule at any time.

As his company was taking care of the last-minute legal work, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates was in Washington, D.C., appearing at a congressional hearing on the future of high technology in the United States and around the world.

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Active Voice Corporation (Nasdaq: ACVC - news) today announced that Microsoft is demonstrating Unity(TM) Enterprise for the Exchange 2000 platform, at SuperComm 2000 in Atlanta this week. The demonstrations, taking place in Microsoft's exhibit (booth 1027), focus on Hosting and ASP solutions, which benefit business customers of all sizes that need to access the latest computing capabilities quickly and cost-effectively. Microsoft selected Active Voice and the enhanced messaging capabilities of its unified messaging solution Unity to demonstrate outsourced messaging services using Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Using the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server family of operating systems as a base platform, solutions such as unified messaging will enable service providers to bring new services to market quickly and cost-effectively.

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Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday that a possible break-up of the software giant would slow innovation within the industry, but that the company would survive either way.

``The real issue in a possible break-up would be the harm it does to innovation,'' Ballmer told representatives of the Norwegian computer business. ``But we'll be fine either way. We'll move on,'' he said in a speech in Oslo, part of a European tour.

District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found in April that Microsoft violated antitrust laws, in a case brought by the U.S. Justice Department and 19 states. The U.S. government wants the company split in two, and Jackson is expected to rule in the state's favor later this week.

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Via Technologies Inc. today announced a reworked version of its Cyrix III processor designed for use in low-cost PCs. Known primarily in the United States as a manufacturer of chip sets, the Taiwan-based company launched its first microprocessors in February. The processors are designed to compete in the budget PC market, with the company initially focusing its energies on garnering a share of the rapidly growing Asian market.

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Mobile phone customers are being targeted by a new computer virus that Internet security experts said is the first of its kind. The virus, called "Timofonica," is reported to be "in the wild" in Spain, where customers of the phone company Movistar have been hit with annoying computer-generated phone calls, according to the antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab. The virus type, known as a worm, targets phones that use the European GSM mobile standard.

Security experts said the virus is the first to hit mobile phones, although they emphasized that the worm is propagated by computer and not via the telephone system. They also said the attack is relatively benign, as it does not destroy computer files but merely delivers a message disparaging the Spanish telephone company Telefonica.

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Tweak Town has taken a look the MSI GeForce256 32mb SDR graphics card, and here is a snippet of the review:

Tweak Town are happy to give you a review of the MSI GeForce 256 Power3D 8809 32mb SDR. This beautiful video card sports a 256 bit Single Chip GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), AGP 4x and 2x with Fast Writes support and a 350Mhz RAMDAC just to mention a few - Yummy!

To read more of the review click here.

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As a federal judge was preparing to mete out a remedy for Microsoft's violations of antitrust law, official Washington rolled out the red carpet Tuesday for its chairman, Bill Gates.

Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) final filing in the case is Wednesday and the judge may rule within days whether the company should be split in two, setting off a round of appeals. As the pressure has grown on his company, Gates has put Washington on his agenda, wooing members of Congress with personal visits and campaign donations.

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Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates two security vulnerabilities in Microsoft® Internet Explorer. The vulnerabilities involve how IE handles digital certificates; under a very daunting set of circumstances, they could allow a malicious web site operator to pose as a trusted web site.

In addition to eliminating the "SSL Certificate Validation" vulnerabilities, this patch also eliminates all vulnerabilities discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-033. Frequently asked questions regarding this vulnerability and the patch can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-039.asp

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Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect, today announced a new initiative that will link two classrooms on opposite coasts for a year of interactive, technology-enabled learning. Called Washington2Washington (W2W), the program pairs a social studies classroom at the SEED Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., with a science classroom at Sequoia Middle School in Kent, Wash., during the 2000-2001 school year, equipping both with a range of technology tools and resources.

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Julien has posted his review of MGI Software's newly released VideoWave III. Here is a snippet from the review:

The democratization of Movie-Making has conducted many users to buy camcorders and video capture cards solutions. Indeed the price of such equipment reached $50,000 a few years ago. Now you can buy a complete multimedia editing solution for only $5000. But a remaining problem is that editing videos on computers has always been a hard and dull task to do especially for novice users that discover tools like Adobe Premiere (which is certainly very efficient software) but also very complex. The Canadian ‘eye’ software manufacturer, MGI, has unveiled to the world its brand new video solution: VideoWave III. This brand new software brings simplicity to edit high-end videos on computers. One sentence really reflects what this new release brings to the product: “PC Video Made Even Easier“. If I have to say something about it I’d say ‘Simply the best’. So below is a complete review of this innovative software.

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Sean has just posted Microsoft's extensive list of compatible desktop (towers & desktops) systems for the Windows 2000 operating system. With over