Aureal Announces Resignation of All Executive Officers and Senior Staff Members

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Aureal Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AURL), a leader in digital audio imaging, today announced the resignation of all of its executive officers, including its President and CEO, Kip Kokinakis, its Chief Technical Officer, Scott Foster, its Chief Financial Officer, David Domeier, and its Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, Brendan O´Flaherty, along with all senior staff members of Aureal. The Board of Aureal stated that it is seeking replacement or turnaround management and is considering all necessary actions to either sell the Company or its assets or wind down the Company.

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Microsoft Word 2000 French Edition Temporarily Discontinued

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Saw over ActiveWin:

Microsoft France has decided to stop producing Microsoft Word 2000 for the time being due to a spell-checker ´racial´ bug. Indeed a French TV channel ( Canal + ) shows to million of watchers that Word 2000 suggests the word ´Anti-Arabs´ when you type ´Anti-stress´. Journalists sues Microsoft to be racist and a scandal happened here in France. So Microsoft stopped the production of Word 2000 and all related products that include Word 2000 and release a patch. A phone call center was also opened to answer customers inquiries and to send customers corrected CDs of Word 2000. Finally Microsoft France announced that Microsoft Word 2000 would be back in stores in April.

Reports say Microsoft, Justice Department closer to settlement

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A MICROSOFT SPOKESMAN Thursday denounced published reports, based on anonymous sources said to be close to the negotiations, that the software maker and the U.S. government are closer to reaching a settlement in the ongoing federal antitrust case.

"When the reports say, ´sources close to the case,´ then unfortunately the sources don´t have to stand behind what they say," said Jim Cullinan, the Microsoft spokesman, adding that the sources in question must be from the government because Microsoft is following its policy of not commenting about specifics of the talks.

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Is Windows 2000 Worth It?

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Is Windows 2000 just another ho-hum upgrade to Windows 95? Don´t let the name fool you. Although its interface borrows heavily from Windows 95 and 98, Windows 2000 is actually the successor to Windows NT 4.0, designed for heavy use by businesses. Now, for the first time, businesses get NT´s legendary reliability along with the usability improvements of Windows 98 and support for new hardware, such as USB devices.

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Allchin acknowledges reports that Whistler code was released

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THE HEAD OF Windows development said Thursday that Microsoft was convinced that a copy of Whistler, the next-generation version of consumer Windows, had been posted to the Internet for download, as reported earlier this week.

On Wednesday, Jim Allchin, group vice president of Microsoft´s Platforms Group, disputed reports that an early, internal build of Whistler had been posted on "various college and Internet sites."

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Intel .18µ Celerons to tip up next week

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Intel is now expected to roll out high end Celeron processors next week based on the Coppermine Pentium III core and including Screaming Sindie, multimedia extensions.

We revealed the existence of these processors earlier on this year.

But, like Celerons based on Pentium II technology, the cache on the processors is expected to be halved, as Intel starts to position the products against AMD Athlon offerings.

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Microsoft To Roll Out Windows 2000 Lite

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Microsoft will soon introduce a "lite" version of its Windows 2000 operating system aimed at running task-specific devices such as Internet appliances and caching servers, according to sources familiar with the company´s plans.

Dubbed Windows 2000 Embedded, the software is a follow-on to Windows NT Embedded 4.0. To date, Microsoft (stock: MSFT) has not publicly acknowledged that such software is in development.

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Intel stiffs system integrators over 1GHz chip

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Ever since the official "launch" of Pentium III Coppermines back on October 25th, Intel´s distributors, dealers and smaller system builders have been the first to suffer from shortages of the processor.

But now, to add insult to injury, the same people have been told that when the 1GHz chip-candy is being handed out, they will be the last in line.

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Partition Magic under Windows 2000

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Thanks to Evan Waite for forwarding the follow email from Powerquest regarding the release date of a patch for Partition Magic under Windows 2000 to me.

Small Businesses Turn to Windows 2000 for Reliability and Ease of Use

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For a small business like Dream House Software Inc., keeping the computers running around the clock is a top priority. Because the Orinda, Calif.-based developer depends heavily on the Internet and outsources most of its support and infrastructure, it needs an operating system it can rely on -- one that lets it coordinate with all of its partners, regardless of their locations, and preserves essential data during development cycles without frequent system crashes and reboots. With these conditions in mind, Dream House Software decided to deploy the Windows 2000 Professional operating system on the new desktops and laptops in its peer-to-peer network so that it could ensure its business would run smoothly and efficiently.

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Cheap chip onslaught from Intel, AMD

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Next week, Intel will unveil two new Celeron processors for inexpensive computers running at 566-MHz and 600-MHz, according to sources. The company will then follow up in late April with two more Celerons running at 633-MHz and 667-MHz. A 700-MHz Celeron, which in February was slated for the second half of the year, may also come out toward the end of the second quarter.

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