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Microsoft executives said on Wednesday that the company's Passport authentication service will soon support an emerging privacy standard called Platform for Privacy Preferences, or P3P. The standard is advocated by the World Wide Web Consortium, a Web standards body, and was adopted by Microsoft in June for use in its software.

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Microsoft is keeping mum amid leaked e-mails and builds suggesting that a final version of its Internet Explorer 6 browser is nearing completion.

In an e-mail seen by CNET News.com, the Internet Explorer team called a recent test, or beta version of IE 6 what we expect to be the final build for the Internet Explorer 6 release. The e-mail, to beta testers, requested final comments and suggestions by Aug. 7.

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The next stop for artificial intelligence will be speech recognition software, according to Microsoft.

At this week's International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence the Redmond giant unveiled a free intelligent speech dictation application that will run on Windows CE.

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Dell Computer Corp. (NasdaqNM:DELL - news), the world's No. 1 PC maker, said on Thursday it no longer offers the option of installing Linux (news - web sites) on its personal computers, citing a lack of demand for the alternative operating system.

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As expected, Intel launched its new mobile Pentium III-M processor at speeds of 866MHz, 933MHz, 1GHz, 1.06GHz and 1.13GHz.

The main change in the Pentium III-M, code-named Tualatin, is that the chips will be manufactured on a 0.13-micron process, which allows smaller circuits to be printed on the chip. Current Pentium III chips are built on a 0.18-micron process. Smaller circuits mean more processing power and less power consumption.

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A stepping stone to Microsoft's toughest qualifications will be available as early as the first quarter of 2002.

The systems administrator and developer certification routes will provide a stepping stone between Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)-level certifications.

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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday told financial analysts that the software giant is on course to deliver key pieces of its strategy to make its software available as a Web-based service.

Gates, speaking before more than 350 financial analysts, reporters and investors at Microsoft's annual analysts meeting at its headquarters, said Microsoft is on track to release a test version of its Web services technology, called HailStorm, late this year.

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Accelenation.com has posted an interview with Abit's Scott Thirwell.

Is it true that the KR7 is based on a newer stepping of the KT266 (KT266 Pro?)? If so, why did Abit choose to wait for this newer stepping?

The KR7 is still currently in the R&D phase. Some have found great performance and reliability with the current chipset. Our demands at ABIT our strict. The people who work in every department of ABIT are like our users. We push our motherboards beyond the standard. In our minds, average is simply not an option. These increased expectations ask a lot of a chipset as well. As I mentioned in my last answer, I think the VIA KT266 will be a very strong chipset and the KR7 a great board, as soon as we are able to enhance the overall performance and stability.
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