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Creative has updated the FAQ. Thanks Anthony.

Q19. Is there going to be a "Live!Ware 3.0 for Windows 2000"? If so, when?
A. Yes, Creative is working hard on "Live!Ware 3.0 for Windows 2000" . We
expect it to be ready Mid-May.

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Microsoft shipped CD-ROMs of Windows Me to beta testers, who will then test the release for lingering bugs as the company prepares to officially launch the final version of the DOS-based consumer Windows line. The code was made available online to testers yesterday.

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It was the summer of 1980, and Bill Gates had a problem.

IBM had just asked Gates´ tiny company, Microsoft, to provide an operating system, the software that runs a computer´s basic functions, for its new personal computer project. But Microsoft, which at the time wrote programming languages for microcomputers, didn´t make operating systems.

Luckily, its biggest would-be competitor, Digital Equipment Corp., believed the PC would never take off and decided not to license its operating systems to IBM.

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As the platform for building and deploying the Business Internet, Windows DNA provides developers with a set of complementary products for building the Web applications of today and of the future. The core of Windows DNA is Windows NT:registered: Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems and application servers with built-in Internet services that enable developers to focus on adding business value to their applications. Other Windows DNA building blocks include the Visual Studio:registered: development system, Microsoft SQL Server, the Site Server and SNA Server server applications, and the COM and COM+ component and programming models. The Windows DNA platform includes built-in Internet services that enable developers to focus on adding value to their applications rather than building the underlying infrastructure.

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Donor Network of Arizona has a truly mission-critical job: recovering organs and tissue for transplantation in the state of Arizona. To coordinate that process, the organization uses a system built on Microsoft:registered: BackOffice:registered: Server 4.5 running on Windows:registered: 2000 Server. Microsoft technology helps Donor Network of Arizona exchange and manage information critical to helping people get the transplants they need. BackOffice Server provides a comprehensive solution the organization says is reliable and cost-effective.

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The loss of chief architects by companies migrating to Microsoft Windows 2000 will severely delay the successful completion of projects.

Michael Silver, a Gartner research director, said organisations that put off upgrading to Microsoft´s latest operating system will also lose key technical people who are attracted to companies that can give them the challenge of working with a new platform.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-024 announces the availability of a tool that eliminates a vulnerability posed by innapropriate permissions on a registry key in Microsoft:registered: Windows NT:registered: 4.0. The default permissions on this key could allow a malicious user to compromise other users' cryptographic keys.

What's the scope of the vulnerability?

This vulnerability could allow a malicious user to install modified cryptographic software on a machine that he could log onto interactively. The modified software potentially could compromise the cryptographic keys of users who subsequently used the same machine.
The machines primarily affected by this vulnerability would be workstations and terminal servers. If standard security recommendations are followed, security-critical servers such as web servers, domain controllers, database servers and others would not allow normal users to log onto them interactively. Windows NT auditing could be used to determine that the user had made the changes to the registry.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-023 announces the availability of a patch that eliminates a vulnerability in Microsoft:registered: Internet Information Server.

What´s the scope of the vulnerability?

This is a denial of service vulnerability. If a malicious user requested a file from a web server via a specially-malformed URL, the server could become unresponsive for some period of time. The vulnerability does not cause the server to fail, or cause any data to be lost, and the server eventually would resume normal operation, given enough time.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that the multilingual capabilities of Windows:registered: 2000 are helping multinational customers such as the National Swiss Parliament and Credit Suisse First Boston do business more effectively and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for their IT administrators. The fastest localization effort in the history of Windows software development culminates in not only the availability of Windows 2000 in 24 languages in 66 countries, but also the availability of the Microsoft:registered: Windows 2000 MultiLanguage version.

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