PC giants plan B2B exchanges

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PC companies and their component suppliers are dividing into two camps - one led by Compaq and Hewlett Packard (HP), and the other by IBM - to create online exchanges to cut the cost of manufacturing PCs.

On Monday, 10 companies joined with Compaq and HP to announce its as yet unnamed exchange. Within hours, IBM rushed out a statement saying it was planning a similar B2B market with nine companies and that an official launch would take place within 30 days.

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HP Win2K driver saga continues

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It´s not only HP printer owners who are up in arms about the company´s inability to ship Win2K drivers for its products.

Following our stories last week on the lack of delivers for the OfficeJet range of all-in-one printer/fax/scanners, several readers have written in pointing out that owners of Hewlett-Packard CD writers suffer from the same problem.

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MSI MS-8809 Graphics Cards Review

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iXBT Labs has posted MSI MS-8809 Graphics Card Review. This card is based on NVIDIA GeForce256 and equipped with SDR memory. One of the coolest features worth mentioning is 3D! Turbo II utility.

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Tools for the Control Freak

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One of Windows 2000 Server´s (Win2K Server´s) new features is Terminal Services. If you´ve been performing server-based computing for a while, you´ll appreciate the availability of a multiuser version of Windows 2000 (Win2K). And if you´ve been considering how server-based computing might fit into your environment, you´ll appreciate RDP´s new capabilities, which simplify session management. However, even if you don´t intend to use server-based computing, Terminal Services can be useful. With Terminal Services, you can remotely administer one or many Win2K servers from one consoleeven if that console isn´t running Win2K.

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ATI RAGE 128/128 Pro drivers

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ATI has posted Windows 2000 display drivers for the Rage 128/128 Pro with WDM capture support for DirectShow based applications. Also a beta update for the ATI DVD Player is available.

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Dual Overkill Review

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PC Stats has posted two articles today. 1) Dual Overkill Heatsink Review and 2) Aureate Media is Watching You.

Asus Live 4.01 Beta 1

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Asus has released Asus Live 4.01 beta 1. Thanks Jakob.

Whats new:

* Fix problem for The button "return" (back to previous channel) on the remote control panel does not work properly.
* When changing the view method from Weave to Bob,or Bob to Weave, ASUSLive will remember it, and stay on correct position when restarting the program.

Problems:

Their capture drivers still disables the hibernate option in windows 2000.

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Matrox Rainbow Runner G-Series

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Matrox has finally released Beta Windows 2000 Drivers for it´s Rainbow Runner G-Series, but they´re only available in english at the moment. Thanks Hoju3.

Major issues:
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- Closed Captioning, RGB support, and extra skins are all disabled.
- Intermittent memory leak while in dualhead

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New S3 Windows 2000 drivers

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S3 has released a new set of Windows 2000 reference drivers (version 5.12.01.8006-8.30.23) for their 2D/3D chipset, the Savage 4. Thanks Mad.

Here´s a list of known issues and limitations:
4. Known Issues

The OpenGL driver included in this release is preliminary and not fully optimized for maximum performance. This will be addressed in a future driver update.
Issues with benchmarking programs (3D Mark 2000, 3D Winbench 2000) will be addressed in a future driver update.
This driver resolves a Direct3D memory leak.
This driver resolves ACPI Suspend blocking on specific Intel motherboards.

5. Known Limitations

Palletized textures are not supported.
This driver does not support DirectX 6.0 or earlier and as such will not work with versions of Windows 2000 prior to Release Candidate 3.

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Windows Me RC1 due May 5, RTM on June 9

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The schedule for Windows Millennium Edition ("Windows Me") was recently revised somewhat, pushing the final release back a week; this is the second such delay in recent weeks. According to internal Microsoft documents, the company´s final product based on the old Windows 9x code-base will now hit the its first release candidate (RC1) build on May 5th and the final release has been knocked back one week to June 9th. "The Windows Millennium product is another in the evolution of consumer operating systems developed by Microsoft," the document reads, "and it delivers clear customer value by focusing in on a few feature areas."

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