Andersen Consulting and Microsoft in $1 Billion Pact To Form Joint Venture and E

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Andersen Consulting and Microsoft Corp. today announced plans for the formation of a joint venture and the expansion of their existing relationship under an agreement designed to address the needs of enterprise customers. The two organizations will team to create business value for customers seeking to buy, build or integrate large-scale industry solutions, including e-commerce offerings, built on the Microsoft:registered: enterprise platform and Windows:registered: 2000 operating system.

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Windows In The Data Center

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In late June, Microsoft will ship Windows 2000 Datacenter Edition, supporting up to 32 processors and 64 GB of memory, making it Microsoft´s most powerful Windows server yet.

Datacenter Edition, which has mainframe-like reliability and manageability features, will likely steal market share from Unix and proprietary servers such as the AS/400, IT executives and analysts said, though no one anticipates that will happen overnight.

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ComputerJobs.com Bets The Farm

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ComputerJobs.com is betting the farm -- or more specifically, the server farm -- on it. The Web-based recruitment agency for IT specialists has moved its site almost entirely to Windows 2000, deploying the operating system on 30 Web servers on Feb. 14 -- the first week the OS was commercially available.

Prior to making the transition to Windows 2000, the five-year-old site ran on Windows NT 4 updated with Service Pack 5.

ComputerJobs.com maintains a database of 100,000 resumes and 40,000 jobs in 19 different geographic regions throughout the United States and 20 different skills categories.

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Guillemot releases Windows 2000 drivers

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The new drivers will be available in their final versions on Monday, March 13, 2000, for most products.

Guillemot
Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 drivers for Guillemot´s Xentor, Xentor32 and 3D Prophet will be available on the Guillemot website (www.guillemot.com). Windows:registered: 2000 compatible drivers for the Cougar and the Cougar Video Edition are currently in development and will only be available in mid-April. Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 drivers for Guillemot´s line of sound cards, including drivers for the Maxi Sound FORTISSIMO and the Home Studio Pro 64 are available on the Guillemot website (www.guillemot.com).

Hercules
Guillemot´s latest contribution to the graphics card market - the Hercules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI - also has Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 drivers available on the Hercules website (www.hercules.com).

ThrustMaster
Finally, all ThrustMaster USB-based accessories currently work with Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 using the Microsoft:registered: reference drivers. New drivers will be available at the end of March. All drivers will be available on the ThrustMaster website (www.thrustmaster.com). Microsoft:registered: Windows:registered: 2000 drivers for non-USB products will only be available in May.

Intel, AMD chips go supersonic

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Advanced Micro Devices and Intel each surpassed a landmark with the introduction of 1-GHz processors, but supply problems may crop up.

Having raced to unveil the high-speed PC chips, the duo may struggle to furnish computer makers. Both companies have recently suffered manufacturing problems at the top end of their product lines, and both skipped over 900-MHz chips to get to the breakthrough "clock speed," an unusual step.

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X-Box to Deliver Ultimate Console Gaming Experience

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At a Microsoft executive retreat last March, a suggestion that the company develop its own video game console coincided with a similar idea already being explored by Microsoft's DirectX team. The proposal quickly made its way up the ranks of approval and, one year later, has become reality.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-008)

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-008 announces the availability of a tool that eliminates vulnerabilities posed by several registry keys in Microsoft:registered: Windows NT:registered: 4.0. The default permissions on these keys could allow an unprivileged user to take unauthorized actions on a machine that he or she could interactively log onto.

Affected Software Versions

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition
NOTE: Windows 2000 is not affected by this vulnerability.

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Win2000 launch boosts European PC sales

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Windows 2000 has helped ignite PC sales in Western Europe after a sluggish start to the year, according to researcher IDC.

The slowdown in PC buying around the Y2K date change continued into the first two months of this year, according to IDC´s latest quarterly PC shipment report.

However, IDC said that sales for March were beginning to show signs of improvement, mainly due to the launch on 17 February of Microsoft´s Windows 2000.

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IBM readies multiprocessing servers for Windows 2000

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MAKING GOOD ON promises to cascade key proprietary hardware technologies down to its PC-based servers, IBM next week will roll out two 4-way SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) servers containing some features the company hopes will give the servers a strong performance advantage in running Windows 2000 Server.

The Netfinity 7600 and 7100 systems will feature chip-kill correction technology, reputed to be as much as 100 times more reliable than existing ECC (error-correcting code) memory. The systems also feature Active PCI, which allows the operating system to configure a network card automatically; a Power Fuel Gauge that alerts IT administrators when overall system resources are being overtaxed; and a dedicated services processor.

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