Thanks to Chris Catt for informing me that Ahead Software has released Nero 5.5
Office XP Professional 30-Day Trial is now available for $9.95 US/$14.95 CAN (plus applicable sales tax).
The Office XP Professional 30-Day Trial kit includes the following:
A fully functional version of Office XP Professional. Experience the newest versions of:
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Access
Microsoft PowerPoint
An Office XP demonstration CD that shows you just some of the great new functionality.
A booklet with details about several of the new features, as well as system requirements, and installation instructions.
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The Office XP Professional 30-Day Trial kit includes the following:
A fully functional version of Office XP Professional. Experience the newest versions of:
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Access
Microsoft PowerPoint
An Office XP demonstration CD that shows you just some of the great new functionality.
A booklet with details about several of the new features, as well as system requirements, and installation instructions.
Read more
Thanks to clutch for this one:
During a public presentation on the company´s role in intellectual privacy, Microsoft officials on Wednesday detailed a few more specifics of the product activation feature and said the company was working to bridge the gap between content providers´ intellectual property and consumers´ rights. You´ll be able to reinstall future Microsoft applications or OSes as many times as you want on your PC, but tweak enough hardware changes and you may be reaching for the phone to reactivate the OS.
The most controversial offering within Windows XP--as well as Office XP, Project 2002, Front Page 2002, and a raft of Microsoft´s future products--will be the forced activation feature. Product Activation will require all consumers to activate their new copies of Windows XP or Office XP using the Internet or a phone. Activation is far different than registration, explained Microsoft Product Manager Allen Nieman. To activate Office XP, for example, the only information a consumer is required to provide is the country he or she is in. Nieman said Microsoft is very aware that many people do not want to register software and are extremely sensitive about privacy.
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During a public presentation on the company´s role in intellectual privacy, Microsoft officials on Wednesday detailed a few more specifics of the product activation feature and said the company was working to bridge the gap between content providers´ intellectual property and consumers´ rights. You´ll be able to reinstall future Microsoft applications or OSes as many times as you want on your PC, but tweak enough hardware changes and you may be reaching for the phone to reactivate the OS.
The most controversial offering within Windows XP--as well as Office XP, Project 2002, Front Page 2002, and a raft of Microsoft´s future products--will be the forced activation feature. Product Activation will require all consumers to activate their new copies of Windows XP or Office XP using the Internet or a phone. Activation is far different than registration, explained Microsoft Product Manager Allen Nieman. To activate Office XP, for example, the only information a consumer is required to provide is the country he or she is in. Nieman said Microsoft is very aware that many people do not want to register software and are extremely sensitive about privacy.
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VIA Hardware has posted their exploration into Windows XP VIA compatiblity. As many know, Windows 2000 has given VIA users a huge amount of headaches in the past year. Will XP improve on Win2K in terms of compatibilty and the rediculous driver situation?
Some traffic from the Microsoft WinXP beta news groups forwarded to The Register indicates that the company may be in deep doo-doo as regards the operation of Product Activation. It´s fragile, it´s triggering the termination of testers´ eval periods, and Microsoft doesn´t know why.
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Digit-Life has posted their April´2001 hardware digest
OCWorkbench has posted some pictures of the new Iwill KD266 motherboard.
Thanks to Mark for this one:
SINGAPORE--Illegal copies of Microsoft Office XP have been selling like hot cakes in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur for a mere RM10 (US$2.60).
The pirated software is readily available at night markets around the city as well as open-air food stalls and walkways in suburbs such as Petaling Jaya and Bangsar.
In an interview today, a Kuala Lumpur-based IT consultant, who requested anonymity, said that he paid RM10 for a single Office XP Professional CD, which comes with Word 2002, Excel 2002, PowerPoint 2002, Outlook 2002 and FrontPage 2002 for Web authoring.
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SINGAPORE--Illegal copies of Microsoft Office XP have been selling like hot cakes in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur for a mere RM10 (US$2.60).
The pirated software is readily available at night markets around the city as well as open-air food stalls and walkways in suburbs such as Petaling Jaya and Bangsar.
In an interview today, a Kuala Lumpur-based IT consultant, who requested anonymity, said that he paid RM10 for a single Office XP Professional CD, which comes with Word 2002, Excel 2002, PowerPoint 2002, Outlook 2002 and FrontPage 2002 for Web authoring.
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Bill Gates will formally unveil Microsoft Office XP to the marketplace at an event in New York May 31.
Office XP, formerly code-named Office 10, is the first version of the Microsoft application suite to incorporate voice-recognition technology. Users will be able to open and close files, save documents, and perform other common tasks via voice command, executives have promised.
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Office XP, formerly code-named Office 10, is the first version of the Microsoft application suite to incorporate voice-recognition technology. Users will be able to open and close files, save documents, and perform other common tasks via voice command, executives have promised.
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Microsoft Corp. launched another offering aimed at the ASP space this week with a program designed to help independent software vendors and developers build hosted applications.
The most recent addition to Microsoft’s .NET strategy, the Hosted Applications Development Community is intended to be a roadmap of sorts, whereby a company looking to enter the ASP market can leverage advice from Microsoft to get their hosted applications to market quickly.
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The most recent addition to Microsoft’s .NET strategy, the Hosted Applications Development Community is intended to be a roadmap of sorts, whereby a company looking to enter the ASP market can leverage advice from Microsoft to get their hosted applications to market quickly.
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X-bit labs has posted an article called "VisionTek GeForce3. First Round of GeForce3 Overclocking".
To provide the most comprehensive platform for e-business, Microsoft Corp. has partnered with service providers worldwide to offer Microsoft Commerce Server 2000 in a managed hosting environment.
Data Return Corp. is a leading provider of managed hosting solutions, offering services for many of the world´s most innovative and fastest-growing Fortune 1,000 companies and e-businesses. Named Microsoft´s Global Hosting Partner of the Year in July 2000, Data Return now offers Commerce Server 2000 services, including custom configuration of the Commerce Server 2000 Targeting System, Business Analytics System and the Web-based Business Desk. As part of its service offering, Data Return monitors all key hardware and software services and can include custom monitors to track total transaction time, transactions per minute and many other custom features.
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Commerce Server 2000 in a managed hosting environment.Data Return Corp. is a leading provider of managed hosting solutions, offering services for many of the world´s most innovative and fastest-growing Fortune 1,000 companies and e-businesses. Named Microsoft´s Global Hosting Partner of the Year in July 2000, Data Return now offers Commerce Server 2000 services, including custom configuration of the Commerce Server 2000 Targeting System, Business Analytics System and the Web-based Business Desk. As part of its service offering, Data Return monitors all key hardware and software services and can include custom monitors to track total transaction time, transactions per minute and many other custom features.
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In an address to the Gartner Group´s "Windows 2000 and Beyond" conference today, John Enck, Gartner´s research director of server strategies, revealed that Microsoft´s enterprise server products, previously code-named "Whistler," will be released under the name Windows 2002.
In February, Microsoft announced the official product name of Windows XP, the company´s next-generation desktop operating system, which had previously shared the Whistler code name with the server products.
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In February, Microsoft announced the official product name of Windows XP, the company´s next-generation desktop operating system, which had previously shared the Whistler code name with the server products.
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Thanks to Christian for informing me that Microsoft has posted a patch for Office XP under Windows XP Build 2465. The patch is available on the Windows Beta Website.
The 81st issue of ZZZ online is out.
Read in the 81st issue of ZZZ online about:
- monocycle with a driver seat located inside the wheel
- microrockets
- space mission to the Sun
- using one keyboard, mouse and monitor with two computers at the same time
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Read in the 81st issue of ZZZ online about:
- monocycle with a driver seat located inside the wheel
- microrockets
- space mission to the Sun
- using one keyboard, mouse and monitor with two computers at the same time
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Internal schedules and reports from a variety of sources are now placing the retail availability of Windows XP in October, causing some analysts and pundits to claim that Microsoft has delayed its latest operating system. But Microsoft has denied these claims, stating that a firm release date had never been announced. "What we have said is that quality is the number one driver for the delivery of Windows XP," a Microsoft spokesperson said late Friday. "Nothing has changed from our standpoint of a release in the second half of 2001."
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Ace´s Hardware has osted a comparsion between the GeForce 3 and the Kyro II
The final version of NVmax 2.0 is available. Thanks Mark
NT 4.0 Service Pack 7 is available - but not on this planet. Sharp-eyed reader Jon Bright, who has interesting tastes in bedtime reading, points us to a few clues to this bizarre piece of Microsoft channel segmentation.
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Neowin reports that AOL is looking for Windows XP testers
