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Thanks NeoWin for this one:

The purpose of this program, unlike most betas, is to augment the reporting capabilities of your existing Windows XP SP1 operating system to allow us to study Application Termination failures. The results of this study will be used to improve future versions of Windows.

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A computer trade group has filed a fresh complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission, alleging the latest XP version of Windows gives the software giant an illegal advantage that kills competition, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

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It's déjà vu all over again: AMD has once again put out a high-end desktop processor that is meant to compete with Intel's fastest. This time it's the Athlon XP 3000+ aiming to go toe-to-toe with the 3.06-GHz Pentium 4 released a few months ago.

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. continued its aggressive first-quarter rollout of new processors on Monday, unveiling its long-awaited Athlon XP 3000+ desktop chip.

The 32-bit chip, code-named Barton, is part of AMD's push to chip away at Intel Corp.'s dominance. The 3000+, with a 333MHz front-side bus, 640KB of on-die cache memory-512KB of Level 2 cache and 128KB of
L1 cache-and 2.1GHz of speed, is designed to compete with Intel's Pentium 4 line.

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As of this week, DVD X Copy, a 321 Studios application recently reviewed by PC Magazine, is readily available from the 321 Web site and many popular retailers, including CompUSA and Fry's. But if seven of the leading movie studios have their way, this won't last long. On April 25, in US District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Susan Illston will hear a motion from the seven studios claiming that 321 Studios two products (DVD Copy Plus and DVD X Copy) are illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and should be removed from the market.

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Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday released a faster version of its Athlon chip for servers and workstations, an upgrade to help the company maintain its new foothold in the server processor market.

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