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If you´re a job-seeking Microsoft certified systems engineer, better brush up on your negotiating skills. The average base salary for MCSEs is down 7% over last year, dropping from $67,800 to $63,400, according to a survey of 6,500 U.S. Microsoft certified professionals conducted by Wilson Research Group.

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WASHINGTON--Lawmakers, trustbusters and competitors are turning up the heat on Microsoft, indicating they could seek to delay the company´s Windows XP operating system, due to ship in October.

During a Tuesday press conference, Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked federal and state trustbusters to consider taking action that would delay Windows XP´s release. He also called on Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to hold hearings on the matter.

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Microsoft has deviated from its initial plans to have the operating system code-named Blackcomb succeed Windows XP, instead adding a new release to its product rollout strategy currently code-named Longhorn.

The move has surprised some developers, Microsoft partners and beta testers because Microsoft executives have been publicly touting Blackcomb to follow Windows XP.

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Microsoft Corp. and ArtinSoft, the industry leader in enterprise migration and upgrade technologies, today announced a strategic alliance to help developers interested in building XML Web services with Microsoft:registered: Visual Studio:registered: .NET and the .NET Framework.

This alliance includes services, a strategic equity investment and software that provides Visual Studio .NET developers with a wizard for upgrading to Visual Basic:registered: .NET from Visual Basic 6.0. The Upgrade Wizard uses ArtinSoft´s industry-leading upgrade technology, is integrated seamlessly into the Visual Studio .NET Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) and is provided at no additional cost to Visual Studio .NET customers.

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PC Stats has put up an new article about "Fluorescent Multi-Layer Memory"

Further qualifications are imposed on the fluorescent material when a recordable (not just readable) system is contemplated. The fluorescence must be either capable of being switched on or off, or it must be susceptible to a threshold at which it stops changing once it is written on. Thermal bleaching techniques attempt to solve this problem by using a fluorescent substance that loses its fluorescence as soon as it´s written on (becoming a permanent layer).
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Accelenation.com has posted an interview with Iwill´s Marketing Manager, Sherman Tang.

If you were given a choice to have motherboards installed in OEM PCs or being the most popular retail board, which would you choose?

Being one of the smaller motherboard manufacturers (compared to the top 10 that is), OEM business finds you rather you finding them. Our primary goal right now is to be the number #1 retail board.
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