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The 82nd issue of ZZZ online is out.

Read in the 82nd issue of ZZZ online about:
- vending machine for printing digital camera images
- car which can be turned into an airplane
- using space technology to produce wine

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Thanks to Sandoval for this one:

NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. plans to give its paying customers more access to the underlying software code for its Windows operating systems, but still rejects the business logic behind Linux and other programming codes that are freely available to all.

In a speech Thursday to a class of graduate business students, a top Microsoft strategist outlined a series of vague announcements on new efforts by the company to share parts of its Windows code - mostly for paying customers and business partners.

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If the state of application compatibility for Windows XP clients is in its infancy, app compatibility for the various Whistler server betas is embryonic.

And that fact, more than almost anything else, is a guarantee that Microsoft won´t ship the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 2002 until 2002, according to testers working with the beta builds of the product.

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SQL Server 2000 introduced several new features for querying database tables and receiving the results as an XML document. Web release 1 of XML for SQL Server added Updategrams and Bulk load functionality as well as a host of other features to the SQL Server 2000 base. Continuing the Web Release strategy, Web Release 2 Beta 1 adds support for XSD mapping schemas, Client-Side "For XML" functionality and a new SQLXML OLEDB provider.

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WE´VE HAD Windows XP, aka Whistler beta 2 build 2462, up and running for a month now and in the main, it´s been a remarkably painless experience. It´s now installed on a 1.6GHz Pentium 4, a 1GHz Athlon, a dual 500MHz Pentium III server and a PIII 650MHz notebook, mostly without problems.

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Microsoft´s product activation process doesn´t know who you are, and is, says the company, entirely anonymous. So if you try to activate with an invalid product key, or after you´ve done a little cracking you´re using an invalid key, there isn´t actually anything Microsoft can do about you - or is there?

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Microsoft is aiming to get the final version of Windows XP out in the summer, but if it misses its target, the software company may delay the operating system´s launch until next year, several PC makers and analysts say.

Much depends on whether the company can meet its target date for releasing the Windows XP final, or gold, code to computer makers. Computer makers contacted Monday said that late last week Microsoft told them it would release the final code for XP--an upgrade to Windows 95, 98, Millennium Edition and 2000--in late July or early August.

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Thanks to Chris Catt for informing me that Ahead Software has released Nero 5.5

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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:registered:
Microsoft Access
Microsoft PowerPoint:registered:
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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