Brace yourself. You may not believe this, but my latest favorite desktop operating system is--drumroll, please--Windows 2000 Professional. Yes, I am the same guy who recommends sticking with NT rather than Windows 2000 on servers. And I'm also the fellow who believes that Linux is today's top server operating system by a wide margin. But that's servers. Here, I'm talking about the desktop.

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Microsoft's New York Metro, New Jersey & Upstate New York Districts this week awarded Cole Systems Associates, Inc., a Silicon Alley-based Microsoft Certified Solution Provider (MCSP) Partner, with a Microsoft Technology Impact Award 2000. Microsoft recognized Cole Systems for delivering a world-class e-commerce solution for EBeauty, Inc.

Cole Systems' solution addressed EBeauty's need to demonstrate within the spa and salon beauty industry that it is a major Internet player. The ultimate goal was to design and implement a very powerful e-commerce solution that would serve as the premier business-to-business e-commerce site offering products and supplies with the ability for the spas and salons to place orders using one of two payment options; credit card or on-account.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced Tech Resource Group (TRG), a leading global provider of customized customer relationship management (CRM) software training and help desk support services, as Microsoft's provider for a 15,000-person internal field and sales force training project.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Service Pack 2 for Systems Management Server 2.0, which includes new support for the Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000 operating system and many performance improvements. In addition, Microsoft announced the results of a new study by NerveWire Inc., which found that customers using Systems Management Server 2.0 are able to reduce their support costs by an average of $1,872 per year for each managed system.

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Stardock has opened its kimono to give us a first glimpse of DesktopX, an attempt to recreate some of the features of Microsoft's abandoned - and now mythical - Cairo operating system.

In the early nineties, with SOM and OpenDoc winning a lot of mindshare, Microsoft began to talk up its successor to Windows NT. Building on NT, Cairo would have an object based file system, and would be the basis for distributed objects.

Eventually, Cairo became a "technology" rather than a "product", then disappeared altogether, with some half-finished portions working their way into Active Directory and exchange server, although Bill Gates' enthusiasm for making the file system the database remains unabashed.

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Advent Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADVS - news), the leading provider of Enterprise Investment Management (EIM) technology, will present Advent Office this week at the Securities Industry Association Technology conference at the Microsoft pavilion. Advent Office, which has been licensed to more than 6,000 firms, has been developed using the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and the enhanced data analysis features of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0.

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Penguins throw down your arms. The Linux battle for the desktop is a fruitless waste of time. I'm saying this for the benefit of the attendees of the Linuxfest 2000 conference that gets under way today in Kansas. Techies love the open-source operating system created by Linus Torvalds. Unlike Windows, they can modify it to do just what they need.

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Bill Gates has a new sideline: company pitchman. During breaks from Shaq’s domination of the NBA finals last week, the smiling, sweater-clad Microsoft chairman popped up frequently in television commercials for the software giant. He reassured computer users that “the best is yet to come” and pledged that Microsoft will continue to make “great software” that “will help your children learn.

”With its jangly folk-guitar soundtrack, high-tech-office backdrop and Gates’s enthusiastic delivery, the commercial made it appear that times have never been better in Redmond.

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Bluetooth technology will offer a way to make wireless connectivity a reality for a huge range of electronic devices, from cell phone headsets to printers.

And Microsoft and Intel Corp. are working on bringing the technology to personal computers. Microsoft and Intel are charting a road map for Bluetooth support for the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. Intel is developing interim software and drivers based on the public Bluetooth specification for linking devices wirelessly, and a Microsoft solution will be available in the first half of 2001.

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Another e-mail worm, known as vbs_stages.a as well as irc_stages.a and shs_stages.a, is quickly making its way through businesses in Asia, North America, and Australia, once again affecting Microsoft Outlook systems.

The e-mail appears to contain a joke outlining "the male and female stages of life," but once the attached file is opened, the virus inserts itself into Outlook and spreads itself via Outlook e-mail messages as well as mIRC and Pirch IRC (Internet relay chat) programs.

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Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) asked the judge that ordered its breakup not to expedite its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, in the latest filing in its federal antitrust suit. The company is hoping that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which ruled for the company in an earlier case, will be a more favorable forum. The company claimed, among other things, that the move would actually delay the case's resolution and that the states suing the company could not appeal directly to the Supreme Court under federal law.

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Microsoft won a round in its battle against the Justice Department on Monday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals agreed to consider freezing a lower court order that forces the software giant to change its business practices. But the victory may be temporary.

The ruling contained something for each side, and both claimed victory in a narrow procedural action that stopped far short of dealing with the lower court's order to break up the company to stop it from abusing monopoly power.

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A Nevada judge today tossed out a class-action suit against Microsoft alleging that the software giant bilked consumers by charging too much for its Windows software.

Judge Gene Porter in the Clark County District Court in Las Vegas granted the Redmond, Wash.-based company's motion to dismiss the case, Microsoft said.

The court win is the second on the issue for Microsoft, after a judge in Oregon ruled last week that consumers there could not sue the company over software they did not buy from it directly.

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Microsoft has sent along the box shot for the RTM'ed today, Windows Me. They also sent over some screenshots from the final version and finally they stated that the Windows Me official site should now be fully up and running.

• Windows Me Logo
• Windows Me Box Shot
• Windows Me Desktop Screen Shot
• Windows Me Start Menu Screen Shot
• Windows Me Movie Maker Screen Shot
• Windows Me Print Preview Screen Shot
• Windows Me System Restore Screen Shot
• Windows Me Shutdown Screen Shot

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Sources close to Microsoft are reporting the software giant is developing a customizable window manager for its upcoming Windows 2000 successor codenamed Whistler. Although little is known regarding the new feature, specifics have begun to trickle in. Much like Stardock's WindowBlinds, the new window manager will allow the user to customize the look and feel of the Windows desktop to his or her liking. By creating themes, applications can be skinned simply by dropping a theme into a specified directory. All controls will be skinnable, including scrollbars, and transparency support is in the works.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals said Monday it will consider Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq: MSFT) request to freeze a lower court order that forces changes in its business practices, unless the Supreme Court decides to handle the case.

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This week's article on EuroGamer takes a look at Windows 2000, and particularly its performance and compatibility for gamers. The article includes Quake 3 benchmarks across a number of systems comparing performance under Win98 and Win2k, as well as looking at Win2k's new features, stability, and the possibility of dual booting so that you can keep Win98 and Win2k running side by side on the same system. Here is a snippet of the article:

You will probably have heard rumours that Win2k performs sluggishly with modern day first person shooters, and indeed other genres. If you are unsure of whether Win2k will suit you, take a look at these real world comparisons, and make up your own mind...

You can read more of the article here.

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In a mixed decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals agreed Monday to consider Microsoft Corp.'s request to delay the breakup of the company and remedies that a federal judge ordered on June 7.

In an order issued Monday, the Appeals Court refused to grant the Justice Department's request to dismiss Microsoft's motion without hearing it. The Justice Department had asked the Appeals Court to delay ruling on Microsoft's request for a stay until it became clear whether the company's appeal would proceed directly to the Supreme Court or be considered by the Appeals Court first.

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As mentioned last week when Internet Explorer 5.5 went gold, Windows Me was just a week away from hitting final too and it is build 3000.2 that went gold for those who want to know. Here is the official MS press release:

Microsoft Corp. today announced that the development of the Microsoft^® Windows^® Millennium Edition (Windows Me) consumer operating system is complete and the product has been released to manufacturing. Windows Me is the latest version of the Microsoft operating system designed specifically for the home user. It improves the home computing experience by delivering enhancements in the areas of PC health, digital media, home networking and the online experience. Consumers will be able to purchase retail versions of Windows Me on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2000.

"By focusing principally on the needs of the home user, we were able to create a more simplified PC experience for first-time users while enhancing existing users' experiences by enabling new home-computing scenarios," said Paul Maritz, group vice president of the Platforms Strategy and Developer Group at Microsoft. "Windows Me supports our goal to evolve the Windows-based PC to continue to provide a rich and exciting user experience in the connected home."

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Broadband Studios, Inc (``BBS''), a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. to distribute select Microsoft computer games, utilizing BBS' Jive(TM) technology. The games are to be broadcast over BBS' PowerPlay Network.

The Agreement provides for the distribution of products on BBS' PowerPlay Network, a multiplayer ``click-n-play'' interactive entertainment service with optimized content and community service packages for broadband connected PCS, video game consoles, cellular phones and digital set-top boxes. In addition, Microsoft and BBS have agreed to investigate the opportunity to license an existing Microsoft property for the basis of an online game channel for the PowerPlay Network.

Ramy Weitz, President of Broadband Studios, Inc., said ``The addition of Microsoft as a content partner for BBS is a critical step for our Company and a key validation of our technology. As we move forward to the launch of GameTV and the integration of Jive and PowerPlay technology with that of key broadband delivery partners adding content partners of Microsoft's caliber is our paramount objective.''

``As broadband connectivity becomes more widely available, companies like BBS are making it easier for gamers to access to the best content,'' said Ed Fries, vice president of games publishing at Microsoft. ``We're excited to be working with BBS and Take-Two to provide our content for online distribution via the PowerPlay Network.''

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MasterCard International Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced the formal rollout of an advertising and marketing agreement to help small businesses stay ahead of the competition. The Microsoft^® bCentral™ small-business portal and MasterCard's Small Business Connections sites will connect small businesses with the Internet's top business services and MasterCard's best-in-class payment solutions.

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Rutgers professor Dr. Michael Shafer calculates that if every person in New Jersey over the age of 13 were to pledge just one hour of volunteer time per year, nonprofit organizations statewide would benefit from 5 million hours of community service annually.

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Last week Ted Bridis of the Wall Street Journal broke a notably bizarre story about mysterious people attempting to bribe cleaners to give them the trash from pro-Microsoft lobbying group the Association for Competitive Technology. Today the story became even more bizarre - or possibly, slightly tragic - as the WSJ follows up with claims from a clutch of pro-MS organisations that they too have been targeted.

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U.S. software firm Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) said on Monday it would launch version 3.5 of its ICSA mobile Internet platform on June 30. Microsoft made the announcement when opening its first mobility solutions centre in Sweden. The centre will allow Microsoft to work together with its partners to deliver applications and services for customers. Version 3.5 of Internet cellular smart access (ICSA), the company's platform for delivering mobile Internet services, will be launched on June 30.

``The platform will enable operators to retain and increase their mobile subscriber base by offering tailored, easy to use, value added mobile Internet services, with wireless application protocol (WAP) micro-browser access to e-mail, allowing their subscribers to stay connected any time, any place on any device,'' it said in a statement.

Microsoft said this version will enable net operators to target new mass user segments, increase systems usage through consolidation of multiple accounts and reduce the cost of operations.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced it acquired Chicago-based Bungie Software Products Corp., a leading independent developer of action oriented computer and video games. As a result of this acquisition, Microsoft gains exclusive publishing and  distribution rights to select Bungie-developed titles, including the  highly anticipated sci-fi action epic "Halo."

"This acquisition reflects our commitment to growing our business with a strong portfolio of quality games for the PC and Xbox platforms," said Ed  Fries, vice president of games publishing at Microsoft. "Bungie's highly talented team consistently delivers award-winning games, and we're looking  forward to supporting their creative spirit here at Microsoft."

Bungie's development staff will become an independent development studio within the Microsoft Game Division, where it will retain its unique  character and edgy personality. Microsoft expects the Bungie team to play  a key role in the development of content for the Xbox platform, creating  the kinds of innovative technology that have defined its character.The team will also continue developing titles such as "Halo," a revolutionary action game recently nominated for four E3 Game Critics awards, including Best of Show.

"This is an opportunity to combine the strength of two outstanding software companies: Bungie's talent for creating great games and  Microsoft's strength in distribution," said Alexander Seropian, founder  and CEO of Bungie Software Products. "Microsoft will provide us with the resources and infrastructure we need to continue to build great games and  make them available on a worldwide scale. We are also looking forward to  helping define the Xbox platform, which may soon be the world's premier game console."

In a related announcement, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., (Nasdaq  "TTWO") current distributor of Bungie-developed titles, announced it acquired all right, title and interest to select Bungie game properties,  including the popular "Myth" game franchise and the upcoming action game "Oni," and has sold its 19.9 percent equity interest in Bungie to Microsoft. Ryan Brant, Chief Executive Officer of Take-Two, said, "This acquisition is a positive for all involved. We have a tremendous amount of respect for Bungie's talents and the contributions it has made to the  games industry, and we look forward to working with Microsoft to make Xbox a success."

Underscoring Microsoft's commitment to being a leading worldwide games developer and publisher, the acquisition of Bungie follows last year's successful acquisitions of FASA Interactive Technologies Inc. and Access  Software Inc., both of which have resulted in the upcoming PC games "MechWarrior(tm) 4: Vengeance," "Crimson Skies(tm)" and "Links(tm) LS  2001," all due out later this year. About Bungie Software  Founded in 1991, Bungie Software is a private, Chicago-based corporation dedicated to developing outstanding, immersive electronic games that  surpass conventional technology and deliver compelling and repeatable play. Makers of the award-winning "Marathon" and "Myth" series, Bungie is currently developing the highly anticipated anime action game "Oni" and  the science-fiction action epic "Halo." For more information, surf to  http://www.bungie.com/.

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Microsoft is arming developers with comprehensive tools for building embedded devices. The company has announced the availability of the Microsoft® Windows® CE 3.0 embedded operating system and its new set of development tools, Platform Builder 3.0 and eMbedded Visual Tools 3.0. Windows CE 3.0 was built from the ground up as a modular embedded operating system for the new generation of 32-bit connected devices. With Windows CE 3.0, developers can build rich, embedded devices that demand dynamic applications and Internet services. For end users, the release of the new embedded operating system will lead to more powerful embedded and feature-rich embedded devices.

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Microsoft on Friday warned there could be a material impact on its stock if it does not get sufficient legal relief through a stay of a court order to split the company or a successful appeal.

"The failure to obtain sufficient relief through the stay and/or the appeal could have a material adverse effect on the value of Microsoft's common stock," the Redmond, Wash.-based company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Microsoft (stock: MSFT) shares closed on Friday up 3/16, to 72 9/16. It has a 52-week high of 119 15/16 and a low of 60 6/16.

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As Microsoft gets set to disclose the blueprint for its next-generation software this week, there remains considerable uncertainty about whether it can get off the drawing board intact.

A historic order that Microsoft (stock: MSFT) be split into two companies for antitrust violations means the future of the Redmond, Wash., company's products will remain under a cloud for some time, experts said. However, its prospects improved somewhat last week when an appeals court -- which has been relatively friendly to Microsoft on antitrust issues -- indicated it will review the case.

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Another new build of RegCleaner is out to fix some bugs. RegCleaner is easy-to-use registry cleanup program. With RegCleaner you can easily get rid of those old and obsolete registry entries which are created by software that you have destroyed ages ago. You can download the drivers from here.

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Once again a set of leaked NVIDIA reference drivers have surfaced for download. These are unsupported as they are not an official release. You can download the drivers from here.

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Since the judge delivered his verdict, Microsoft's top executives have stoutly maintain that the company is innocent, will be vindicated, and will not change its business practices. There is no plan B, official.

As we've pointed out here several times, if this is a true statement of Microsoft's policy, it's positively reckless. The split in the company and numerous other measures imposed by Judge Jackson would make it absolutely impossible for Microsoft to carry on developing software the way it always has, so Microsoft's insistence that it has no contingency plan makes it sound like it's betting the whole company on having practically all of Jackson's measures stayed before they can kick in.

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Microsoft said it acquired Bungie Software Products to bolster its development of games for personal computers and its planned X-Box video-game console.

Terms weren't disclosed. Closely held Bungie makes games such as "Myth" and "Marathon." The Chicago-based game maker and almost all of its 50 employees will join Microsoft as a separate development studio within the Microsoft games division.

The purchase gives Microsoft new game titles and developers as it builds its first game console, expected to come out in the second half of 2001 to strong competition from Sony, Nintendo and Sega Enterprises. To make the X-Box a success, Microsoft needs to make sure there are games written to work with it by the time it's released.

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CPU Review have posted a review of the upcoming AMD chip, Duron. Here is a snippet of the review:

The 200MHz FSB allows the use of PC100 and PC133 memories; and soon DDR support will be available; opening the "memory speed gap" even further. Remember, even with plain PC100 memory the Duron will have a 50% higher memory bandwidth than a Celeron; with PC133 the gap increases to 100% more potential bandwidth.

To read more of the review, click here.

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As service providers move to deliver new, high-growth, software-based services for both consumers and business customers, Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server is playing an important role.

User success stories, independent research studies and other benchmarks are testimony to the scalability, reliability and cost-effectiveness of the platform, which is being adopted by an increasing number of service providers, including British Telecommunications, Cable & Wireless, Data Return, Digex and Qwest Communications. The strength of the Windows 2000 platform for the service provider industry was highlighted last week at SUPERCOMM 2000, North America's largest telecommunications trade show.

"One of the biggest misconceptions about Microsoft is that our platforms are not 'telecom ready.' In reality, Windows 2000 offers service providers the most scalable, reliable, flexible and affordable platform out there," said Jonathan Usher, group manager for service provider marketing in Microsoft's Network Solutions Group.

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Microsoft is paying attention to what Macintosh users want. The company's upcoming Office 2001 Macintosh Edition will offer many features that Windows users may never get their hands on. Currently in beta testing, the Macintosh desktop applications suite is scheduled to ship in the second half of this year. Compatibility and ease of use were at the forefront of Microsoft's mind while developing Office 2001, says Irving Kwong, product manager at Microsoft's Macintosh business unit.

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Microsoft warned today that there could be a material effect on its stock if it does not get sufficient legal relief through a stay of a court order to split the company or a successful appeal.

"The failure to obtain sufficient relief through the stay and/or the appeal could have a material adverse effect on the value of Microsoft's common stock," the Redmond, Wash.-based company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Microsoft shares today closed up 19 cents at $72.56. It has a 52-week high of $119.94 and a low of $60.38.

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Microsoft has re-released the IIS 5.0 Patch for MS00-031. Here is the email they sent out:

On May 10, 2000, we released Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-031 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-031.asp), discussing a pair of vulnerabilities affecting Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0.  Both of the vulnerabilities, known as the "Undelimited HTR Request" and "File Fragment Reading via .HTR" vulnerabilities, should have been eliminated by the patches discussed in the bulletin.  In the case of the IIS 4.0 patch, this was the case. However, we have recently discovered that the IIS 5.0 patch only eliminated the "Undelimited HTR Request" vulnerability, and not the "File Fragment Reading via .HTR" vulnerability. We have released a new version of IIS 5.0 patch, and have verified that it does eliminate both vulnerabilities.  We recommend that any customers who previously applied the IIS 5.0 patch revisit the bulletin and apply the new version of the patch, to ensure that they are fully protected against both vulnerabilities.  The IIS 4.0 patch was always correct, and customers who applied it do not need to take any action.  We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused by this error, and will do our best to ensure that it does not occur again.

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The government on Friday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to ignore Microsoft's urging to begin work on the firm's appeal as the legal tennis match in the antitrust case continued. The U.S. Justice Department and states suing Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) said the software giant was wrong in asserting that the states' case would be split off and remain with the appeals court even if the Supreme Court agreed to directly hear the federal case.

The government brief also repeated arguments made earlier in the week that the appeals court should defer any action on Microsoft's request to stay a breakup order against the company until the lower court has ruled on the firm's stay request and the issue of which court will hear the appeal is resolved. Since District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his order June 7 to split Microsoft in two to prevent future antitrust violations, both sides have jostled to go before the higher court of their choice.

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While Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) has talked up its history of keeping OS price hikes to a minimum, it's making no apologies for forthcoming price increases on its server applications. The company's new motto, at least for its 2000-generation back-office server products: You get more, you pay more.

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On the evening of June 1, Jose Lopez and Erminia Morales of P&R Enterprises were going about their normal office-cleaning duties when, they say, a woman approached them and offered, in Spanish, to pay between $50 and $60 to each of them for the trash of the Association for Competitive Technology here. The trade group is heavily funded by Microsoft Corp. and has been relentlessly pro-Microsoft in its work.

The cleaners said the woman identified herself as Blanca Lopez and asked them to bring the bags of trash to Upstream Technologies, on the same floor of the building. The cleaners declined.

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David Boies, the attorney who has represented the government in its antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. has signed on to defend online music firm Napster. Boies, an attorney with Boies, Schiller, and Flexner, LLP, said the case "raises important questions of how the copyright laws are to be applied to this new medium."

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America Online has confirmed that hackers have illegally compromised an undisclosed number of its member accounts by targeting key company employees with an email virus.

AOL spokesman Rich D'Amato declined to comment on how many accounts were affected or what kind of information was accessed by the perpetrators. He said the perpetrators gained access to the accounts when unsuspecting AOL staff downloaded virus-infected email attachments. The attacks targeted employees authorized to review and edit account data, including credit card information and passwords.

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I have posted my review of Microsoft Baseball 2001 and here is a snippet of the review:

You have the choice when you are at the Schedule section to either simulate the game or play it yourself. As I mentioned before I choose the typical installation and when I went to play an actual game it took an eternity for the game to load, mainly because there was so much information streaming from the CD and from different areas from the CD and seems to be loaded into a temp file. When I say an eternity I am talking about the 5 minute range for the game to load. Once the game loaded there wasn't to many problems, except when there is a home run and some fireworks load or a pinch hitter comes on to play and there is more streaming from the CD. I did find that when I changed the install from typical to full install afterwards though that the game loading time for games did take a lot less. I think its a good idea to use a full install or else you will just simulate every game and a lot of the fun will be lost.

To read more of the review then click here.

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With the PC Expo trade show just around the corner, thoughts turn to hardware -- PCs, NetPCs, legacy-free systems, handhelds, cell phones, smart phones. But what's powering all the latest and greatest devices?

For the moment, it's the same old operating systems and browsers. There was good reason Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was a monopoly in the Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) X86-based desktop space: Windows 95/98/98 SE is preloaded on more than 90 percent of these systems. On the device side, meanwhile, the market