Microsoft to boost Windows, Unix integration

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BOWING TO THE requirements of users who run systems with multiple operating environments, Microsoft is at work merging its Interix product line into the next version of its Windows Services for Unix (SFU).

SFU addresses the interoperability of Microsoft´s Windows 2000 operating system in Unix-based network environments, while the Interix products, consisting of a suite of utilities and developer tools for Unix, allow developers to port Unix-based scripts and applications to the Windows platform.

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Microsoft to include networking technology in Windows Me

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The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant last month decided not to incorporate a "networking client" for Novell and Banyan networking software in Windows Me, its upcoming operating system for home PC users. News of the decision prompted a rash of complaints. The company now has reversed itself and will put the software back into the OS.

"Based on feedback from partners and customers, we´ll put it back in," said Shawn Sanford, a product manager at Microsoft. The third beta version of Windows Me, released to testers last week, included support for Novell Netware, he said.

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´Whistler´ OS sneaks on the Web -- again

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Another version of the company´s follow-on operating system to Windows 2000, code-named Whistler, has been posted illegally to the Internet.

The OS, which is tentatively scheduled to debut in March, 2001, is in development inside the walls of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). The company has been producing versions, or builds, of the OS that are only supposed to be available to Microsoft employees. The OS is not yet in public beta test.

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Workout.com Powers Leading Web Fitness Site With Microsoft Windows 2000 for Fast

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that Workout.com Inc., a leader in online graphical fitness programs and workout information products for consumers and health clubs, is keeping itself in peak condition by relying on the Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 platform. The Milpitas, Calif.-based e-business - which is rapidly becoming the Internet portal for the athletic and fitness club industry - joins the fast-growing list of companies choosing Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server for its Web hosting and development efforts.

"Workout.com is one of the growing number of e-commerce companies using
Windows 2000 to exploit the power of the business Internet today," said Tod Nielsen, vice president of the Platform Group at Microsoft. "Windows 2000 delivers the reliability and scalability that Workout.com needs to create and maintain a powerful Internet portal. And it supports fast, flexible Web development using the popular and industry-standard tools with which developers are already familiar."

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Voodoo 5 Pre-Order Program

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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- 3dfx Interactive:registered: Inc. (Nasdaq: TDFX - news), a global leader in developing and marketing 3D technology for personal computers, today announced a pre-order program for the highly-anticipated Voodoo5(TM) 5500 graphics card. The new Voodoo5, powered by 3dfx Interactive´s VSA-100 chipset, is the industry´s first 3D hardware solution to feature full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA), a breakthrough feature which smoothes out the ``jagged edges´´ and eliminates the ``pixel popping´´ visual deficiencies prevalent on competitors´ offerings. The new product also features 3dfx´s proprietary T-buffer(TM) digital cinematic effects engine which enables, for the first time, acceleration of Hollywood style techniques such as motion blur, depth of field, soft shadows and soft reflections.

``We are very excited about launching our Voodoo5 5500 pre-order program in conjunction with our leading retailers,´´ said John Gunn, vice president of channel sales at 3dfx Interactive. ``This program allows consumers early access to this exciting new product by pre-ordering through a variety of locations either online or in their favorite retail store.´´

Customers may pre-order their Voodoo5 5500 AGP graphics boards immediately from a variety of leading retailers and online stores including Amazon.com, Babbages, Best Buy, Buy.com, Circuit City, CompUSA, Egghead, Electronics Boutique, Futureshop, Outpost.com, Value America, and www.shop.3dfx.com. The product is available in both AGP and PCI bus versions, features 64 Mbytes of memory, and has an estimated retail price of $299. More information on the Voodoo5 pre-order program can be found at www.3dfx.com/preorderv5.html.

Microsoft Aims Pocket PC At Enterprise

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With the planned release this week of a new generation of handheld devices running a Microsoft operating system, the company once again is turning a hungry eye to the market dominated by Palm.

The device, to be called "Pocket PC powered by Microsoft Windows," will feature an operating system based on the Windows CE kernel but with enhancements to the user interface.

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Have a Ball With Microsoft´s Mice

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What´s big and red and glows when you touch it? Two burly new Microsoft Trackball mice: Trackball Optical and Trackball Explorer, scheduled to be available in October.

Unlike a standard mouse, which uses a ball and rollers to track movements, these mice implement Microsoft´s IntelliEye technology. IntelliEye uses a digital signal processor to take 1500 digital snapshots per second of the surface on which you´re mousing. Then the digital signal processor tracks the changes between images and translates them to movements on the screen.

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Microsoft security hole puts Web sites at risk

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Microsoft is battling a second security problem in Web management software used on hundreds of thousands of Web sites around the world.

As reported on Friday, Microsoft acknowledged that rogue software code containing the phrase "Netscape engineers are weenies!" was included in its Windows NT operating system and could open up Web sites to unauthorized access. The nearly five-year-old code also can be used to crash Web sites running FrontPage 98 server extensions, Microsoft has acknowledged.

Now, in a second security notice posted late Friday, Microsoft warned: "Shortly after publishing the bulletin, we learned of a new, separate vulnerability that significantly increases the threat to users of these products."

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Win2k exams - Microsoft demands higher failure rate

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For Windows 2000, the exam content has been drastically revised, but this largely reflects the more complex and wide-ranging nature of the product. The more significant changes are in the method of assessment. The multiple choice questions that do little more than test a candidate's ability to recall facts are being replaced by two new techniques designed to measure a candidate's ability to think on the hoof and solve real problems without being able to fall back on basic memory skills. These are adaptive testing and simulation/case study. With adaptive testing, each question depends on the answer to the last so that the level of difficulty can be quickly tailored to the candidate's ability. Simulation and case study testing attempts to measure on-the-job skills rather than rote recall, by presenting candidates with realistic scenarios where some of the newly acquired skills have to be applied.

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Search Assistant´s Indexing Service in Windows 2000

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Windows 2000 Professional comes with a new tool for tracking down files on your hard drive called Search Assistant. The Search Assistant is much more powerful than its predecessor, Find, and has a brand new HTML interface that looks a lot like Internet Explorer 5.x´s Search feature. In fact, the Windows 2000 Search Assistant acts as a one-stop searching tool because it also allows you to search for Web sites on the Internet and for people on LDAP directory services as well as searching for files and folders on your hard drive or computers on your network.

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Microsoft poised to challenge Palm

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Microsoft will unveil its next generation of handheld organisers simultaneously in London and New York this week.

The software giant will launch the latest version of its Windows CE handheld operating system, called Pocket PC, on Wednesday.

On the same day, manufacturers including Hewlett Packard, Compaq and Casio will launch devices based on the operating system.

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Intel CuMine supply problems a twisted, complex tale

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Every time there are supply problems in the PC industry, and as a salutary reminder of the difference between hardware and software manufacturers, never mind the bubble.com phenomenon, we boot up Caesar III to see a real life simulation of how markets work.

Intel has 70,000 employees working for it worldwide and a large number of fabrication plants, R&D centres, as well as a large headcount of admin, sales and marketing staff. It´s little wonder, therefore, that from time to time things go awry. On Friday, we reported that a large number of manufacturers have been told there will be continuing shortages of Coppermines until June.

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Japan slaps export controls on PlayStation 2

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The popular gaming machine, which includes a digital video disc (DVD) player and will eventually offer Internet access, is Sony´s most profitable product. The company said it had shipped 1.4 million in the month after the game´s March 4 launch in Japan.

The console and its memory card have been designated as ``general-purpose products related to conventional weapons´´ because they contain components that could be used for military devices such as missile guidance systems, the Kyodo news agency quoted industry sources as saying.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-025)

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-025 discusses a procedure that eliminates a vulnerability in Microsoft:registered: Visual Interdev 1.0, affecting customers who use several web server products. A component of Visual Interdev 1.0 that ships with these products could allow a malicious user to cause an affected web server to crash or, under certain conditions, run code of his choice on the server.

What's the scope of the vulnerability?

This is a buffer overrun vulnerability. Microsoft has verified that a malicious user could use this vulnerability to cause a web server to crash, in a denial of service attack. Microsoft is investigating the possibility that the vulnerability would allow a malicious user to run code of his choice on the server as well. When the results of the investigation are known, we will update the bulletin to provide additional information.

Microsoft recommends that customers using an affected web server product delete the component that contains the vulnerability, Dvwssr.dll. Customers who already did so per the original version of this bulletin do not need to take any further action. If Microsoft's ongoing investigation shows that the vulnerability can be used to run arbitrary code as well, customers who have deleted the file will already be protected and will not need to take any further action.

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MS security flaw called "pinhole"

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Initial reports of a "back door" in Microsoft Corp.´s FrontPage server software -- a deliberate security hole put in to allow illicit access -- now seem to be, for the most part, incorrect.

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