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Compaq has opened its Qtest Windows 2000 testing laboratory to UK users. The Labs has been built to help users pilot their Windows 2000 deployment, such as Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, on a large scale network.

Neil Eke, Windows 2000 Business Manager at Compaq said, "Having this global test environment enables us to find out in advance how it is going to perform for them and will also fast-track their understanding of the new features and functions in Windows 2000."

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Hardware-One has posted a comparison review of the Thunderbird Athlon, the Duron and the stock Athlon. Here a snip:

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Overclocker´s Workbench has posted new bios updates for the follow Abit motherboards:

BE6-2 & BF6 v1.0 & 1.1 (SH)
1. Supports Celeron 566(66),600(66),667(66),700 (66), 850(133),866(133), and 933(133)MHz CPU.

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BH6 v1.1 (SP)
1. Supports Celeron 566(66),600(66),667(66),700(66)MHz CPU, and PIII 750,800,850MHz CPU.
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PowerStrip 2.70 provides full support for the Voodoo5 under all Win32 operating systems. It is, in fact, the only way to adjust Voodoo5 clock speed in real time, without restarting Windows, and to change gamma levels dynamically, during game play.

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With Windows Me under its belt, Microsoft Corporation this week turned its attention to the first Windows.NET beta, code-named "Whistler." The Whistler Technical Beta team jokingly promises to ship Beta 1 "later this year" but won´t divulge any news or details. However, people that I´ve talked to at Microsoft say that Whistler will feature "awesome" XML/XSL-based skinning capabilities that far surpass any customizing features in Windows today. "It´s what Windows should have been years ago," I was told. Whistler, which is based on Windows 2000, will ship in a Personal Edition that will supplant Windows Me, as well as Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server Editions. There will be 32-bit and 64-bit versions of each edition, except Personal Edition, which will ship only as a 32-bit product.

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