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Thanks to James Carter for this one:

Microsoft confirmed today that it would release Windows XP- and Whistler Server-related exams that will follow on the heels of releases of Windows XP and Whistler software later this year. Microsoft also says the Windows XP/Whistler Server exams will be integrated into the Windows 2000 MCSE track.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced it has hired Cliff Reeves, a veteran software business manager and developer, as vice president of marketing in the Windows.NET Server Product Management Group.

Reeves, 51, brings 30 years of experience with IBM Corp. and its affiliate Lotus Development Corp. to his new position. He will lead marketing efforts for Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 Server family and related products and technologies including Systems Management Server, Terminal Services and the forthcoming Microsoft Operations Manager. He begins work at Microsoft on March 5.

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Thanks to M. Kusanagi for informing me that Ahead Software has released a new update/demo of Nero.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft:registered: Office XP, the new version of the world´s leading office software, has been released to manufacturing and will be available for retail purchase later this spring. The company has completed extensive development and test efforts for Office XP, which is the most significant version of Office ever released. Major customers, industry partners and developers, including Timex Corp. and The Vanguard Group, are lining up in support of Office XP, which will deliver exciting new experiences for all types of customers, whether they are at home or in the enterprise. These experiences simplify productivity, enable collaboration for everyone, and provide flexible ways to solve business needs.

"Office XP´s greatest strength is that it delivers extensive new innovations that will truly improve the way people work by enabling them to be more efficient and productive with their PC," said Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Office at Microsoft. "We worked with a wide range of customers to shape this product, and we are excited to see that customer response has been very positive about Office XP."

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BackOffice 2000 includes the latest version of standard editions of Windows 2000 Server, Exchange 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000, ISA Server 2000, Systems Management Server 2.0, and Microsoft Host Integration Server 2000.

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Thanks to Anthony for this one:

While the Napster predicament continues to monopolize the online music situation, there´s another, less glamorous story brewing that could change the rules of the digital music game as much as Napster already has. Microsoft´s upcoming operating system, Windows XP, will feature a new version of Windows Media Player and a new system called the Secure Audio Pathway (SAP), which could make Microsoft the only DRM game in town. The driver-level content protection scheme could lay the first realistic groundwork for the secure distribution of audio and video content over the Internet. Early reports have insinuated that this might be the end of the free trade of MP3 files--for Windows XP and ME users, anyway.

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Hexus has posted an article "Memory Bandwidth Limitations on Current Architectures"

It is, of course, widely known that even the 7.2Gb/s of bandwidth offered by the Ultra´s 230MHz DDR memory, the fastest and most expensive SDRAM currently available, is not sufficient to exploit the full potential of the Ultra´s core in 16-bit colour, let alone in 32-bit. In a reversal of the past approach to graphics card engineering, chips are now being designed to ensure that all available memory bandwidth is used - memory bandwidth has become the major bottleneck, rather than the core´s clock speed or number of texture units and pixel pipelines.
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