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The MSN Messenger outage spilled over into a seventh day Monday, with many users of the free service complaining of inaccessible accounts, despite Microsoft´s claims most had been restored.

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For our german readers. Peter Hauser of 3DWIN send me the follow news concerning his site (in german):

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Saw over NeoWin that a new tweak utility for Windows XP is available.

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Software giant Microsoft Corp (MSFT) , whose image in China was tarnished over fears that its flagship Windows product was not fully secure, said on Friday it had entered a venture with a state-owned software firm to provide an extra encryption "lock" tailored for Windows in China.

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Microsoft was forced to issue a warning yesterday stating that a time bomb bug in the latest version of its Visual Studio .Net developer tool would cause the product to expire at the end of the month.

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Microsoft´s MSN Messenger outage spilled over into a fourth day, with many users of the free service complaining about poor communication from the company.

MSN Messenger users started experiencing trouble on Tuesday, with the most commonly reported glitches being connection problems and missing buddy lists of friends. The service appeared to go down completely at 3 p.m. PDT on Thursday, though users in Australia reported some activity overnight. By Friday morning, service had been partially restored in many countries.

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With an eye toward the growing number of migrations to Windows 2000, two desktop administration software providers announced new or enhanced tools designed to streamline the process.

On Technology Corp., of Waltham, Mass., last week unveiled its Site Manager, which bridges the gap between simple imaging tools and more complex software distribution systems such as Microsoft Corp.´s Systems Management Server.

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Accelenation has posted a interview with Kamran Ahmed, Senior Manager of Product Management at Matrox about the new Matrox G550 and it´s features.

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Users looking to migrate from Windows 95 to the forthcoming Windows XP face an expensive upgrade path, confirms Microsoft.

The company finally approved the minimum and recommended hardware specifications for the new operating system at its reviewers´ conference in New York last week.

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