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FOR: FRIDAY OCTOBER 20, 2000
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Bush - Adobe
LiveMotion Free 1.02 Update
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Time: 15:15 EST/20:15
GMT | News Source: ActiveNetwork | Posted By: Julien
Adobe has just released a free update for its
recently released LiveMotion software that is intended to create
internet animations (Flash, etc). This Adobe LiveMotion 1.0.2 update
features faster performance, improved sound support, better Import
and Export capabilities, more efficient SWF compression, tighter
integration between Adobe
Illustrator® and Adobe
Photoshop®, and updates to the object-based Timeline. If you're
a registered user you can download the update right
now for free (4.4Mb). Note that the update is available only in
English for the moment but multi language updates should be released
soon according to Adobe.
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Time: 10:19 EST/15:19
GMT | News Source: The
Register | Posted By: Byron
Hinson
There were some curious inconsistencies in the
presentation of Microsoft's Q1 results this week. The income
statement showed Q1 2001 income of $2.206 billion compared with
$2.191 billion a year earlier - a very modest increase of just $15
million, or less than one per cent. But the press release claimed an
18 per cent increase because of an accounting change (SFAS 133) that
Microsoft had to adopt because it is now required that all
derivatives be recognised as assets or liabilities - and measured at
fair value. Microsoft was not doing this, so took a hit of $375
million.
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Time: 10:15 EST/15:15
GMT | News Source: The
Register | Posted By: Byron
Hinson
Microsoft's "freedom to innovate" slogan
inflitrated the Bush campaign slightly last night, as George W
fielded a question about the trial in a CNBC interview. He ducked,
declining to talk about an ongoing case, but got the I-word into a
brief answer, twice.
The Candidate is obviously still kind of talking in
code, but from Microsoft's point of view the right triggers were in
what he said. "But I will tell you this, I have always stood on
the side of innovation over litigation," he said in the more
coded part.
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Time: 10:15 EST/15:15
GMT | News Source: The
Register | Posted By: Byron
Hinson
The Court of Appeals judges who'll be dealing with
the Microsoft case have decided to give themselves a basic (some
might say remedial) computing class before they press on with the
matter in hand. An order for a hearing on the subject for the Court
says quaintly that it will focus on "basic concepts underlying
the fundamentals of automation."
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FOR: THURSDAY OCTOBER 19, 2000
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Time: 17:11 EST/22:11
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By: Byron Hinson
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is
midway through an estimated 10-year effort to develop a new Internet
Protocol (IP). The update is being driven primarily by the fact that
the Internet, largely due to the explosion of non-PC devices in
recent years, is running out of IP addresses -- the codes assigned to
every Internet-enabled device, allowing connected systems to find
each other.
Although more than 4 billion IP addresses are
possible under the current version of the Internet Protocol (IPv4,
the network layer of the TCP/IP protocol suite), available addresses
will be depleted within a few years if the IP addressing system is
not revised. The new protocol, IPv6, will essentially remove the IP
address ceiling by converting to 128-bit addresses, thereby freeing
the industry to enable as many connected devices, or communication
end points, as the market demands.
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Time: 14:07 EST/19:07
GMT | News Source: ActiveNetwork | Posted By: Julien
Nikon CoolPix users don't wait anymore! Nikon has
just released their Windows Me drivers for the CoolPix 700, 800, 880,
900, 950 & 990 digital cameras. With it you'll at last be able to
hot plug your Nikon camera to your computer using an USB port. You
can download it right now by clicking
here (only 2.82Mb).
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Time: 14:07 EST/19:07
GMT | News Source: ActiveNetwork | Posted By: Julien
Microsoft Corp. has just released a new game
profile for its SideWinder GameVoice device. This profile adds
support for the following games:
- Asheron's
Call
- Earth
2125
- Fly2k
- Homeworld
- No
One Lives Forever
- Starlancer
You can download it right now by clicking
here (only 40Kb). Attention: this profile will only work for US
& English systems.
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- Microsoft Jumps
16 Percent After Estimates
Time: 12:25 EST/17:25
GMT | News Source: Press Release | Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) rose 16
percent and was the most active stock on the Nasdaq Stock Market on
Thursday after the world's No. 1 software maker posted a fiscal
first-quarter profit that easily beat Wall Street forecasts.
Microsoft, rose $8-1/8 to $59-15/16 with some 53
million shares changing hands in the first 90 minutes of trading. As
a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, Microsoft helped
send the index into positive territory after two days of battering by
nervous investors.
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Time: 11:55 EST/16:55
GMT | News Source: Active
Network | Posted By: Robert
Stein
We have just posted Microsoft's latest list of
critical patches for the Windows 2000 Operating System. This updated
list also designates which prior patches are included in Service Pack
1. Check it out!
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Time: 11:55 EST/16:55
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Network | Posted By: Robert
Stein
We have just posted Microsoft's latest update for
the Windows 2000 Hardware Compatibility List. This text format list
has all the different hardware by type and manufacturer that works on
the Windows 2000 platform. It's a must have! 2.2 MB!
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Time: 10:53 EST/15:53
GMT | News Source: ZDNet
| Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
Can a leopard change its spots? Maybe only if it's
backed up against a wall in a cage, à la Microsoft.
The siege mentality that many have ascribed to
Microsoft Corp. as of late can be attributed to any number of
factors: The fallout from the never-ending Department of Justice
antitrust case; the continuing corporate brain drain; a stock price
hovering at more than two-year low.
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Time: 10:01 EST/15:01
GMT | News Source: ActiveNetwork | Posted By: Julien
Adobe, the well known maker of PhotoShop has just
released the new version of its web site designing software. To learn
what's new in this release 5, be sure to read our review! Here is a
snippet of the review:
In
January 1999 Adobe bought CyberStudio their website design solution
software named GoLive. This new buy brought to Adobe the control of
the graphic chain from A to Z as they now offer a software solution
for each need. Since they have bought this software they first
adapted it to Windows with the fourth release, as it was originally
Mac only software. Adobe now unveils its new release 5 of GoLive that
comes with several new enhancements. The aim of Adobe is clear with
this release: they want to have a high-end web design software able
to compete with Macromedia DreamWeaver 3.0.
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Time: 07:09
EST/12:09 GMT | News Source: ActiveNetwork | Posted
By: Julien
Are
you on the look out for a new burning software to burn in all piece of
mind your CDR? If so be sure to take a look at our just posted review
on the most complete burning software out on the market: Nero 5. Here
is a snippet of the review:
WSKA
software sent us the latest release 5 of one of the most powerful
burning software of the world for review. You’ll probably wonder why
this software is called Nero? In fact long ago when the Roman Empire
was dominating Europe, a mad Emperor called Nero decided to put fire
to Rome just for its viewing pleasure. So this burning software is
called that as it’s aimed to put fire to your CD when you burn them.
This new release is intended for power users due to its relative
complexity and comes with several enhancements.
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Time: 06:55 EST/11:55
GMT | News Source: Press Release | Posted By: Byron
Hinson
Microsoft
Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT
- news) on Wednesday
posted a quarterly profit that soundly beat Wall Street estimates,
saying performance was solid across all its businesses and that it
was bullish about its key product, Windows 2000 (news
- web
sites).
Microsoft, which makes the Windows operating system
that runs most personal computers, said its net profit in its fiscal
first quarter ended Sept. 30 rose 18 percent to $2.58 billion, or 46
cents a share, before including an accounting change, from $2.19
billion, or 40 cents a share, a year earlier.
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Time: 06:55 EST/11:55
GMT | News Source: The
Register | Posted By: Byron
Hinson
Does Gartner hold an internal contest for the best
'look at me' news hooks to be used for its annual Florida Symposium?
If so, competition must have been pretty intense this year. But we
think Tom Bittman with his combo 'Whistler will slip to 2002,
Microsoft is derailing .NET by not dealing with the DoJ, Microsoft
should agree a split into two companies' pitch probably clinched it.
Still, Steve Ballmer's reprise of 'I'm a good sport
because I keep coming to these things and they kick the crap out of
me' deserves an honourable mention. But Bittman first.
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Time: 06:53
EST/11:53 GMT | News Source: Active Network | Posted
By: Matthew
Sabean
Our
AskAW Helpers have been busy answering your e-mail and we have just
posted the most recent questions.
We have an archive of questions you might want to
search through located at: http://www.activewin.com/askaw/archive/index.shtml
We seem to be back on track and are just about a
week or so behind from when you send in you requests. Anyone
sending in a question will receive a follow-up e-mail stating that a
response has been posted. If you have a question that you would like
answered then just drop us an e-mail at: askaw@activewin.com.
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Time: 06:52
EST/11:52 GMT | News Source: TechWeb
| Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates challenged
participants at the Creating Digital Dividends conference, saying
that direct technology investments in developing countries might be
useless if the population isn't healthy or literate.
"Once you have solved these problems, then you
have the chance to bring in the tools of new communication,"
said Gates, chairman and chief software architect of the world's
largest maker of desktop software.
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Time: 06:50
EST/11:50 GMT | News Source: TechWeb
| Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
Rough global economic conditions and a bumpy tech
sector have done little to cause Microsoft Corp. executives to dampen
earnings expectations for the rest of the year.
The Redmond, Wash., software maker, which beat Wall
Street's expectations for its most recent quarterly earnings, says it
is on track to complete its fiscal year according to plan.
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Time: 06:46
EST/11:46 GMT | News Source: InfoWorld
| Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said here Wednesday
that the software vendor, as part of its new Internet-based .Net
computing services strategy, will try to put applications such as
Word and Exchange on Palm's market-leading handheld computers and
other mobile devices that compete with Microsoft's own Pocket PC
technology.
"No offense to the Pocket PC, but we might
need to bring .Net services to Palm and other [handheld]
devices," Ballmer said during a question-and-answer session in
front of an audience of about 7,000 information technology managers
at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2000 conference.
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Time: 05:47 EST/10:47
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Product Security| Posted
By: Matthew
Sabean
Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a
security vulnerability in the HyperTerminal application that ships
with several Microsoft(r) operating systems. This vulnerability
could, under certain circumstances, allow a malicious user to execute
arbitrary code on another user's system.
The HyperTerminal application is a
utility that installs, by default, on all versions of Windows 98,
98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. The product contains
an unchecked buffer in a section of the code that processes Telnet
URLs. If a user opened an HTML mail that contained a particularly
malformed Telnet URL, it would result in a buffer overrun that could
enable the creator of the mail to cause arbitrary code to run on the
user's system. Please note that, although a Telnet URL is involved in
this vulnerability, there is no relationship between this
vulnerability and the "Windows 2000 Telnet Client NTLM
Authentication" vulnerability discussed in MS00-067.
HyperTerminal is the default Telnet
client on Windows 98, 98SE and ME. However, it is not the default
Telnet client on Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 users who have not
taken steps to make it the default Telnet client would not be
affected by the vulnerability.
Although HyperTerminal ships as
part of several Microsoft products, it was developed by a third party
- Hilgraeve, Inc. Additional information on the vulnerability and a
patch for their full version product, HyperTerminal Private Edition,
is available from their web site at: http://www.hilgraeve.com
Affected Software Versions: -
Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows 98SE - Microsoft Windows Me -
Microsoft Windows 2000
Patch Availability
- Windows 98 and 98SE: http://download.microsoft.com/download/win98/Update/12395/W98/EN-US/274548USA8.EXE
- Windows Me: http://download.microsoft.com/download/winme/Update/12395/WinMe/EN-US/274548USAM.EXE
- Windows 2000 (can be applied to both Gold and Service Pack 1): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=25112
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FOR: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18, 2000
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Via Update - Hot
Windows Me fix - New Detonator 6.35 drivers
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- Microsoft Teams
Up with HK Software Firm
Time: 13:31 EST/18:31
GMT | News Source: Active Network | Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
Microsoft Corp. and a unit of Hong Kong-listed
Excel Technology International (Hong Kong) Ltd (8048.HK) said on
Wednesday they would jointly develop Internet-based human resources
software in Hong Kong.
Microsoft would develop the product with i21 Ltd, a
software joint venture in which Excel Technology has a stake, the
companies said in a statement.
The software can be used by corporations for the
management of payrolls and Mandatory Provident Fund, a mandatory Hong
Kong retirement fund scheme to be launched in December, the statement
said.
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Time: 13:20 EST/18:20
GMT | News Source: TechWeb
| Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
Microsoft Office, which dominates the desktop
productivity market with more than 90 percent share, will continue to
evolve and improve, said Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer.
Ballmer said the company can continue to add
considerable value -- including instant messaging and collaboration
-- to the venerable application suite to keep users coming back for
more.
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Time: 09:25 EST/14:25
GMT | News Source: ActiveWin | Posted By: Julien
New Nvidia Detonator Drivers 6.35 for Windows 9x
and Windows Me have just leaked to the web. You can download them
right now by clicking
here.
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Time: 09:22 EST/14:22
GMT | News Source: ActiveWin | Posted By: Julien
If you cannot access anymore the Help & Support
Center applet of Microsoft Windows Millennium as it says when you
launch it: 'Unable to display page' we've got the solution! We've
posted a reg file that will definitely fix the problem and repair
your PCHealth so you'll be able to use it again. Click
here to read the tip and download the file.
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Time: 06:15
EST/11:15 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Byron
Hinson
If your computer has a VIA USB host controller, the
Force Feedback 2 is incompatible with the USB chip and will not work.
A software update is available to correct this incompatibility. NOTE:
Computers without the VIA USB chip will not benefit from this
software update.
This software update supports Windows 98, Windows
98SE, Windows Millenium, and Windows 2000.
Select a language to download the software
update:
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NEWS HEADLINES
FOR: TUESDAY OCTOBER 17, 2000
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Microsoft Links
LS 2001 went Gold! - MSB ( MS00-078 )
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Time: 13:44 EST/18:44
GMT | News Source: Active Network | Posted By: Robert
Stein
I have updated our list of upcoming Microsoft games
which will be released later this year or next year. If you heard
about a game and want to know it's release date, website and more be
sure to check it out!
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Time: 13:00 EST/18:00
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Product Security| Posted
By: Matthew
Sabean
Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a
security vulnerability in Microsoft(r) IIS 4.0 and 5.0. The
vulnerability could potentially allow a visitor to a web site to take
a wide range of destructive actions against it, including running
programs on it.
This vulnerability is eliminated by the patch that accompanied
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-057. Customers who have applied that
patch are already protected against the vulnerability and do not need
to take additional action. Microsoft strongly urges all customers
using IIS 4.0 and 5.0 who have not already done so to apply the patch
immediately.
Due to a canonicalization error in
IIS 4.0 and 5.0, a particular type of malformed URL could be used to
access files and folders that lie anywhere on the logical drive that
contains the web folders. This would potentially enable a malicious
user who visited the web site to gain additional privileges on the
machine - specifically, it could be used to gain privileges
commensurate with those of a locally logged-on user. Gaining these
permissions would enable the malicious user to add, change or delete
data, run code already on the server, or upload new code to the
server and run it.
The request would be processed
under the security context of the IUSR_machinename account, which is
the anonymous user account for IIS. Within the web folders, this
account has only privileges that are appropriate for untrusted users.
However, it is a member of the Everyone and Users groups and, as a
result, the ability of the malicious user to access files outside the
web folders becomes particularly significant. By default, these
groups have execute permissions to most operating system commands,
and this would give the malicious user the ability to cause
widespread damage. Customers who have proactively removed the
Everyone and Users groups from permissions on the server, or who are
hosting the web folders on a different drive from the operating
system, would be at significantly less risk from the vulnerability.
Microsoft strongly recommends that
all customers running IIS 4.0 or 5.0 immediately apply the patch for
this vulnerability. This patch was originally released in August 2000
as a fix for a completely different vulnerability (discussed in
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-057), and customers who have already
applied it do not need to take any additional action.
Affected Software Versions: -
Microsoft IIS 4.0 - Microsoft IIS 5.0
- Microsoft IIS 4.0: http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/critical/q269862
- Microsoft IIS 5.0: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/critical/q269862
Note: The IIS 4.0 patch can be
installed on systems running Windows NT(r) 4.0 Service Packs 5 and
6a. It will be included in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 7. The IIS 5.0
patch can be installed on systems running either Windows(r) 2000 Gold
or Service Pack 1. It will be included in Windows 2000 Service Pack
2.
Note: The Download Center pages discussed above may, for the next
several days, only reference the "File Permissions
Canonicalization" vulnerability. However, we are updating the
pages to state that it applies to both that vulnerability and this
one.
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Time: 10:02 EST/15:02
GMT | News Source: Press Release | Posted By: Byron
Hinson
The European Commission said on Tuesday it had
given U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT
- news) extra time
to answer charges it is abusing its power to gain an edge in the
global market for server software.
The Commission, the antitrust watchdog for the
15-nation European Union, in August sent Microsoft a legal warning
``for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market for
personal computer operating systems software by leveraging this power
into the market for server software''. It initially gave Microsoft
two months to respond, but has now extended that deadline, a
spokeswoman said.
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Time: 10:02 EST/15:02
GMT | News Source: Press Release | Posted By: Byron
Hinson
Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund on Tuesday said
shares of Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT
- news) may be due
for a ``relief rally.'' Sherlund said Microsoft may bounce back from
the new 52-week low of $49-9/16, touched on Monday, particularly if
there is no bad news in its earnings report, expected after the stock
market closes today, or in a subsequent conference call.
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Time: 08:58 EST/13:58
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Byron Hinson
Today’s busy consumers are demanding easier ways
to access relevant information from the Web, regardless of their
device or location, and MSN is meeting that demand. Today, at CTIA
Wireless I.T. 2000, Microsoft released MSN Mobile 3.0, the newest
version of the MSN wireless service. Launched in June 1999, MSN
Mobile was the first major portal to provide wireless information
delivery. New users, along with the 1.5 million unique users who
already enjoy MSN Mobile, will now be able to access new integrated
features and content. Recent agreements with the three leading U.S.
carriers clearly mark MSN as a leading provider of content and
services to the U.S. mobile market and highlight MSN's continued
success in delivering content and services across a wide range of
devices, giving consumers more opportunity to access MSN from the
device that is best for them. PressPass spoke with Yusuf Mehdi, vice
president of MSN at Microsoft, to talk about this milestone for MSN
Mobile.
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Time: 08:55 EST/13:55
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Byron Hinson
Microsoft Corp. today released MSN®
Mobile 3.0, the newest version of the MSN wireless service. MSN
Mobile, launched in June 1999, was the first major portal to provide
wireless information delivery. Since then, MSN Mobile has registered
more than 1.5 million unique users and has relationships with
carriers to be a featured part of the service on more Web-enabled
phones in the United States and Canada than any other major portal.
MSN Mobile content and services are featured on Web-enabled phones in
the United States through its relationships with Nextel
Communications, Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless and will soon be
available on over half a million Web-enabled phones in Canada through
agreements with Bell Mobility, Clearnet Communications Inc. and
Rogers AT&T Wireless.
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Time: 08:55 EST/13:55
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Byron Hinson
As the 2000-2001 basketball season prepares for
tipoff, Microsoft Corp. and Infinite Mobility Inc. today announced
that the champion Los Angeles Lakers will standardize on a
comprehensive digital scouting solution using Infinite Mobility's
Pocket Hoops on Microsoft® Windows®-powered
Pocket PC personal digital assistants (PDAs). Pocket Hoops, which
takes advantage of the color, touch screen, voice recording and
HTML-based Pocket Internet Explorer browser software capabilities of
Pocket PCs, offers the Los Angeles Lakers' scouts an efficient way to
track all necessary information for an unlimited number of players,
including digitized shot-charts, drop-down ratings, voice recordings,
notes and more.
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Time: 08:45 EST/13:45
GMT | News Source: News.com
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Hinson
Although Microsoft's Xbox won't arrive until next
fall, gamers have a brief opportunity to snag one in an online
auction for charity. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant has
donated a half-dozen of the game consoles in an Amazon.com auction
sponsored by a video-game trade association. The auction comes as
bidders on eBay are offering nearly twice the asking price for this
holiday season's hot item--Sony's PlayStation 2.
Winners won't get the Xbox until it starts shipping
next fall. But in the meantime, they will have a hand-signed
certificate from Bill Gates assuring that they will be one of the
first with the console.
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Time: 08:04 EST/13:04
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Byron Hinson
Today at Convergence 2000, the premier automotive
electronics conference, Microsoft Corp. announced the introduction of
its Car.NET platform, an advanced new generation of infrastructure
technology that brings computing and communications to the automotive
industry in a revolutionary way. Car.NET offers technology and
service providers the tools for extending today's computing
experience into the automobile - opening up the world of the wireless
Internet to motorists in a safe and secure manner.
Car.NET has its origins in the Microsoft®
.NET initiative, which permits the creation of distributed Web
services that will integrate and collaborate with a range of
complementary services. These services, combined with in-vehicle
electronics - audio and video, telephone, navigation and telematics
(which integrates vehicle control and monitoring systems with
location tracking and wireless communications) - will empower
carmakers, automotive suppliers and service providers to make
traveling easier, more entertaining, less stressful and safer.
Car.NET envisions an end-to-end framework, which includes in-vehicle
computing clients powered by Microsoft Windows® CE for
Automotive and a server infrastructure based on Microsoft Mobile
Information Server for Automotive.
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Time: 08:04 EST/13:04
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Byron Hinson
Today at Convergence 2000, the premier
automotive electronics conference, Microsoft Corp. announced the
introduction of the Microsoft® Windows® CE
for Automotive v.3 operating system. It will enable system
manufacturers to build next-generation, in-car computing systems that
improve safety, communications, information and entertainment.
"The market for in-car computing is poised to
embark on an amazing journey," said Bob McKenzie, general
manager of the Automotive Business Unit at Microsoft. "Safety
and security services are among the most important criteria to
motorists. They want access to Internet-based information such as
news, traffic updates, instant messaging, navigation assistance and
other services. They also have a keen interest in back-seat
entertainment systems. Windows CE for Automotive is designed to
provide these features and more by delivering state-of-the-art
reliability, flexibility and connectivity."
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Time: 08:02 EST/13:02
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Byron Hinson
Microsoft Corp. today announced that
"Christian Bioethics," the new book from H.E Cardinal
Dionigi Tettamanzi, has been released as an eBook in the Microsoft®
Reader format. Attending the event were Cardinal Tettamanzi,
archbishop of Genoa; Dick Brass, vice president of technology
development at Microsoft; Pietro Marietti, chief operating officer of
Edizioni Piemme, publisher of Cardinal Tettamanzi's book; and several
key members of the press.
Publishing this dynamic work as an eBook will
greatly improve access to this important topic, making it available
to a larger audience, and helping to clarify the dialogue on this key
topic that affects people all over the world. The eBook version of
"Christian Bioethics" is available for download to PCs,
laptops and Pocket PCs at http://www.bioeticacristiana.it/.
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Time: 07:02 EST/12:02
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Julien
Microsoft today announced that Links 2001, the most
significant upgrade to the Links series in over a decade, has gone
gold. This means that the product is completed and is expected to hit
store shelves in the U.S. during the week of October 30. Links 2001
features an entirely new rendering engine that delivers unprecedented
ball physics and graphics, as well as the Arnold Palmer Course
Designer, which allows PC golfers to re-create their home courses
with the same tools used by the Links 2001 team. Links 2001 offers
gamers new tour players -- including Sergio Garcia, Arnold Palmer and
Annika Sorenstam -- as well as new golfer animations and
personalities, customizable club distances that allow for an even
more accurate re-creation of a player's actual game, and faster and
easier online play. The game also features courses such as the Four
Seasons Resort Aviara in San Diego, Chateau Whistler in the Canadian
Rockies, The Prince Course at the Princeville Resort in Kauai, Fred
Couples' Westfields Golf Club in Virginia, and the newly created Mesa
Roja located in the canyon lands of the southwestern United States. A
perennial favorite, St Andrews Links Old Course, has also been
enhanced for this version. The long-awaited Arnold Palmer Course
Designer (APCD) makes its debut in Links 2001. The APCD provides
users with the power and versatility to accurately recreate courses
in a powerful, real-time 3D system. Players can tweak every inch of
fairway with the APCD and create tunnels and arches with full control
over each point on the course. A robust library of trees, shrubs and
other vegetation allows players to sort for the climate and season
that fit their home course, or they can import their own custom
images. Links 2001 will be available for an anticipated street price
of US$49.
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Microsoft Project
2000 Review & PowerQuest SecondChance 2.07 Review
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Time: 10:15 EST/15:15
GMT | News Source: ActiveWin | Posted By: Julien
PowerQuest, the famous software maker of Partition
Magic, has announced it'll release a free update 2.07 for its Second
Chance software intended to work with Windows Me. Existing users of
Second Chance will be able to update their software free of charge
directly from the software using the online update feature.
Multilanguage update should be available within the next few days. Be
sure to read our review
of SecondChance 2.07.
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Time: 10:15 EST/15:15
GMT | News Source: ActiveWin | Posted By: Julien
I've
just updated my review of PowerQuest Second Chance 2.07 that is now
compliant with Windows Me. Here is a snippet of it:
Have you ever installed a software
update that failed, erase a system file or get a virus that
accidentally crashed your system? If so, you know that restoring to a
healthy working system is painful and can be a chase just to find the
origin of the failure and that is just the beginning of the problem.
If you aren’t yet a Windows Me user, PowerQuest has got a software
solution for you named Second Chance 2.0. As its name indicates,
Second Chance 2 will give you a second chance to restore a working PC
environment.
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Time: 08:58 EST/13:58
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Byron Hinson
Today at the CTIA Wireless IT show, OmniSky Corp.
and Microsoft Corp. announced that OmniSky's award-winning wireless
Internet and e-mail service will be extended to the Microsoft®
Windows® Powered Pocket PC platform. This latest offering
gives customers the first color mobile access to OmniSky's service
and furthers OmniSky's strategy to support leading platforms, which
allow the company to offer branded wireless Internet services across
a range of mobile handheld devices.
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Time: 08:58 EST/13:58
GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted
By: Byron Hinson
Today, Luis Lada, president of Telefónica Móviles,
and Paul Gross, senior vice president of Microsoft Corp.'s Mobility
Group, extended their current agreement -- to deploy a new generation
of mobile Internet services for corporate and consumer customers --
by establishing a joint executive advisory team to rigorously assess
and plan new mobile products and services for Telefónica Móviles'
corporate and consumer customers. The advisory team deepens the
relationship between the two companies and creates the opportunity
for senior representatives from both companies to work side by side
on developing new and innovative services for Telefónica Móviles'
customer base.
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Time: 06:45 EST/11:45
GMT | News Source: ActiveWin | Posted By: Julien
I've
just posted my in-depth review of Microsoft Project 2000, the project
management software solution from Microsoft. Here is a snippet of it:
Microsoft has released a few months
after its new Office 2000 software suite, a new version of its brand
new project management software. This new version was long awaited
since the previous one was released in 1998. When Microsoft Corp.
first introduced in 1990 Microsoft Project 1.0 for Windows, the
software was one of the first of its race. Since then this kind of
project management software has grown relatively fast and is now used
by almost every person responsible who is in charge of a project in
the computers and services business sectors. Microsoft Project 2000
is the sixth release of Project and is aimed to conquer even more
users than the already existing 3 million. The basis of Microsoft
Project 2000 is to provide workers management software that is easy
to use and flexible to plan and track the evolution of their
collaborative projects.
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NEWS HEADLINES
FOR: SATURDAY OCTOBER 14, 2000
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WEEKEND - MSB (MS
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Time: 15:08 EST/20:08
GMT | News Source: Seattle
Times | Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
A U.S. judge yesterday questioned how plaintiffs in 38 consumer
lawsuits can claim Microsoft charged them illegally inflated monopoly
prices if they didn't purchase the Windows operating system directly
from the world's largest software maker.
U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz's questions raised the
specter that he might dismiss the largest block of consumer suits
filed against Microsoft after another federal court found last year
that the Redmond company illegally protected its Windows monopoly.
The cases could be dismissed because the plaintiffs bought their
software from computer makers or retailers, not Microsoft, the
judge's questioning suggested.
The lawsuits are among more than 125 filed against Microsoft,
mostly since U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in
Washington ruled June 7 against the software giant in the landmark
antitrust case brought by the U.S. Justice Department and 19 states.
Microsoft is appealing Jackson's order that it be split into two
companies to dispel its power to preserve its Windows monopoly.
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Time: 11:22 EST/16:22 GMT | News
Source: Active Network | Posted By: Matthew
Sabean
Our AskAW Helpers have been busy answering your e-mail and we
have just posted the most recent questions.
We have an archive of questions you might want to search through
located at: http://www.activewin.com/askaw/archive/index.shtml
We seem to be back on track and are just about a week or so
behind from when you send in you requests. Anyone sending in a
question will receive a follow-up e-mail stating that a response has
been posted. If you have a question that you would like answered
then just drop us an e-mail at: askaw@activewin.com.
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Time: 11:00 EST/16:00 GMT | News
Source: ActiveWin | Posted By: Julien
I've just posted my review on the recently released Microsoft
TrackBall Optical. Here is a snippet of the review:
Every
computer user knows that using a classic mouse is painful and can
even causes wrist pain (after intensive hours of use) that imply
some breaks needed to be taken: the exact opposite of productivity
those today businesses need. Worst working with a classic mouse isn’t
very accurate in terms of screen pointing when you have to edit,
create or touch up pictures. Microsoft, probably one of the most
innovative hardware suppliers of the world has just released a new
pointing device named Microsoft TrackBall Optical. If the concept
isn’t really new as TrackBall exists since a lot of years, the
architecture of this new one is revolutionary and it obviously uses
the new enhanced Microsoft IntelliEye patented technology. Best of
all it comes with all the features that made the success of the
Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, such as the scrolling wheel and the
two new customizable buttons. The TrackBall concept basis is to
provide users with a fixed poiting device that they don’t need to
move so they can save space on their desk. It’s really a relief
for me to have at last a TrackBall that combines the best of today’s
technology: optical sensor, and five buttons!
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