Windows 2000 Release Aggravates Skills Gap

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At least 70 percent of the NT Server installed base will skip Windows 2000 release 1. That´s the prophecy offered by Tom Bittman, VP and research director for GartnerGroup, during a keynote at the company´s fourth annual Windows NT and Windows 2000 conference in San Francisco. Microsoft will ship a service pack by mid-year as well as the first version of Datacenter Server, Bittman said, and a follow-on release will ship by the second half of 2001. Bittman called this latter version a "fix and finish" release--"mainly a testing effort on fixes since release 1, and additional tools/functionality for major features like Active Directory."

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Win2K drivers: HP is ´hurrying´

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Following our story earlier this week (HP eventually wakes up to Win2K,) the Great Stan of printers has issued a measured response. It would seem that the HP party line is that no one ever uses a new operating system until the first service release.

"It is certainly standard operating procedure to wait for the first service release before wide scale adoption of a new OS - especially for the IT community," says Rex Robertson of HP software support.

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Windows "Whistler" to end DLL hell with "Fusion"

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Microsoft Corporation is proactively seeking to put an end to the Achilles Heel of Windows reliability, "DLL hell," a problem that has faced the company since the days of Windows 3.1. Various versions of Windows, including Windows 2000 and Windows Me, have added features to combat the problem, but the release of Windows "Whistler" in 2001 should be the final piece in the puzzle. It´s all due to a technology that Microsoft calls "Fusion" internally, but it´s unlikely you´ve ever heard of such a thing, despite the fact that it´s been embedded, in some form, in various versions of Windows beginning with Windows 98.

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AMD unveils Celeron basher

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AMD´s rival for Celeron in the sub-$1,000 segement, previously codenamed Spitfire, has been badged Duron, which we are assured is derived from the Latin words for "to last" and "unit".

Our research reveals the sordid truth: Duron was a composer who died of TB in 1716 after being accused by the Catholic Church for the decadence of Spanish music.

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Observers skeptical of Windows 2000 Kerberos plan

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IN AN ATTEMPT to answer interoperability questions about its implementation of Kerberos security in Windows 2000, Microsoft is finally preparing to reveal a key proprietary data format it has been guarding for nearly two years.

Although IT executives and standards watchers have hoped that Microsoft would publish the data format, they are now concerned about a possible Microsoft plan to license the technology instead of making it freely available. They say that action would continue to needlessly tie Kerberos users to Windows 2000.

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Intel to phase out serial number feature

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Intel spokesman Howard High confirmed today that the company will not include serial numbers on the next generation of its processors, code-named Willamette, that will be released later this year. The identification numbers will continue to be used in the Pentium III.

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Xerox, Microsoft team on Net venture

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The companies, which will unveil the venture today, didn´t provide details, except to say Xerox chief executive Rick Thoman and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will hold a news conference at 9:30 a.m. PT at Xerox´s research center in Palo Alto, Calif.

Analysts speculated that Xerox will join with the giant software company to offer software that protects intellectual content downloaded from the Internet.

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Fatbrain.com Opens Microsoft Online Bookstore for Windows 2000 Community

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Fatbrain.com (TM)(Nasdaq: FATB - news), the leader in managing, marketing and distributing information for businesses, today announced the launch of an additional online, custom bookstore for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - news). The Windows 2000 Online Bookstore, a Fatbrain.com Information Exchange solution, provides the latest books and training materials for Windows 2000 developers, users and IT professionals worldwide. This new bookstore is the seventh online bookstore Fatbrain.com has developed for Microsoft since 1998.

The Windows 2000 Online Bookstore is publicly accessible at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/training. The bookstore offers visitors a complete selection of titles and training materials on Windows 2000 including user guides, reference materials and recommended books for Windows 2000 migration and deployment, programming, and system administration.

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Host Integration Server 2000 Bridges Today´s Technology to Legacy Systems

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Microsoft Corp. today furthered its commitment to providing the most comprehensive solution for embracing the Internet, intranets and client-server technologies with the release of the beta 2 version of Host Integration Server 2000. This release, which includes updates to the product that was released in February, now allows bidirectional replication between Oracle and Microsoft:registered: SQL Server databases connected by LANs, WANs or the Internet. This replication functionality allows customers to make duplicate copies of data, move those copies to different locations, and synchronize the data automatically so that all copies have the same data values. Host Integration Server 2000 is the only product that provides this type of functionality.

A key component of the Microsoft Windows:registered: DNA 2000 platform, Host Integration Server 2000 is the first step toward flexible mainframe integration with front-end systems and the Internet. This product also empowers developers of Windows DNA by offering new ways to utilize existing AS/400, mainframe data and applications by working seamlessly with all the products in the Windows DNA family, including BizTalk Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Commerce Server 2000. Host Integration Server and the Windows DNA 2000 architecture also utilize key standards-based integration enablers such as XML, COM+ and SOAP to allow developers to realize significant new business value through application integration.

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Intel to launch USB 2.0 today

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Intel´s Pat ´Kicking´ Gelsinger, the company´s desktop products group VP, will today unveil the long-awaited final spec for USB 2.0 at WinHEC.

USB 2.0 takes the bus´ data throughput up to and beyond IEEE 1394 standards. 1394 currently runs at 400Mbps - USB 2.0 will run at 480Mbps, forty times greater than USB 1.1´s 12Mbps. USB 2.0 hubs will support version 1.1 peripherals, but not vice versa.

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Two Whistlers on the Way

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Microsoft is finally merging its Windows 2000 and 9x lines with its upcoming "Whistler" operating system--but you´ll still have a choice of Windows: Whistler will come in both business and consumer editions.

Microsoft executives are offering a few details about its next-generation operating system, due in 12 to 18 months, at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference (WinHEC) here this week.

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Win2000: Going once, going twice ...

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Microsoft staffers have been auctioning off copies of Windows 2000 software on eBay, a practice the company frowns on but has had only mixed success reining in.

Senior management has cautioned employees and contractors that the private resale of company software is against Microsoft policy. Yet in the past week 23 copies of Windows 2000 have been put up for auction on the eBay Web site from people living within a 25 mile radius of Microsoft´s Redmond, Washington, campus.

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