Its Official: Office 2000 Bug Fix Adds Bugs

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An update that was intended to resolve hundreds of bugs in Microsoft´s Office 2000 package turns out to have a few glitches of its own.

Users who upgrade to Windows 2000 from Windows NT 4.0 and then try to install Office 2000 Service Release 1 will have problems using Internet Explorer, a Microsoft spokesperson says.

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KPNQwest, IBM team on Web hosting

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Pan European network operator KPNQwest today teamed up with IBM to create a Web hosting venture that is expected to generate revenues of around four billion euros ($4.02 billion) within 10 years.

To harness a market for European electronic Internet hosting estimated to be worth $15 billion by 2003, newly-listed KPNQwest and U.S. computer giant IBM intend to help deliver next generation e-business services across Europe.

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Amiga preps dual-OS plan, outlines hardware line-up

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Amiga, inc. is turning itself into Be, if this weekend´s revelations from the Amiga 2000 show, held in St. Louis, are anything to go by.

During the show, the company said it had entered into partnerships with a series of companies, most notably Sun, Red Hat and Corel, put Java at the forefront of its software efforts and outlined its hardware plans.

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MS guilty - a monopoly, and anti competitive

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Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson today issued the expected guilty verdict in the Microsoft antitrust case. He concluded that "Microsoft maintained its monopoly power by anticompetitive means and attempted to monopolise the Web browser market."

Jackson also concludes that Microsoft violated the Sherman antitrust act "by unlawfully tying its Web browser to its operating system." But there´s some small cheer for Redmond here - Jackson doesn´t reckon that Microsoft´s marketing deals with otrher companies (i.e., with ISPs and, maybe, OEMs, "constituted unlawful exclusive dealing."

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Microsoft Delays BackOffice 2000

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Microsoft (stock: MSFT) internal documents state the original target date for the BackOffice upgrade for Windows 2000 was the second quarter. The delay could disappoint early adopters of Windows 2000 who are awaiting the server suite upgrade.

BackOffice 2000 will incorporate Exchange 2000, SQL Server 2000, Host Integration Server 2000 (formerly known as Babylon), and the next version of Proxy Server, code-named Comet.

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Wells Fargo moves to Windows 2000, Active Directory to improve directory managea

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Flexibility makes network directory management an easier task.

And Wells Fargo Bank expects to get the flexibility it needs by moving to Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 Server and the Active Directory service. With Active Directory, Wells Fargo will be able to design its network directory according to its business needs. And by standardizing on Windows 2000 for directory, file and print services as well as applications and Web services, the bank expects to further improve manageability and reduce costs. Wells Fargo initially plans to migrate 120 Novell NetWare-based servers to Windows 2000 at the bank's Wholesale Banking Group.

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New Windows Media Player plays it all - except DVDs

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A little bit of Windows Millennium Edition is available for download from those nice folks at Microsoft.

Windows Media Player 7 is billed as being capable of doing everything you could ever want, including copying CDs to a hard disk, cataloguing your music collection and watching videos. This is obviously a new meaning of the word ´everything´ as WMP7 can´t play DVDs. And testers will need nerves of steel, too.

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