AMD Athlon 550 rises from the dead

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System builders and distributors around the world are reporting that the AMD Athlon 550MHz processor, which many thought would disappear as the firm ramped up higher clock speeds, is once more for sale.

The processor is being offered in OEM packaging to dealers at a cost of around $169, which makes it, let us say, rather competitive with Intel´s range of Celeron processors.

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Microsoft UK MD blames Win2000 bugs on rivals

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Neil Holloway, Microsoft´s UK MD, has admitted that Windows 2000 does contain some defects.

In an interview with Silicon.com, Holloway said problems were bound to arise when customers used Windows with software from multiple vendors.

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Microsoft Launches Real Estate Venture

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Microsoft Corp. Thursday tapped into the real estate sector by creating a new firm to quicken the pace and at which homes are bought and sold.

Financial details were not revealed, but Microsoft (MSFT) said it would hold a majority stake in the new venture, with Chase.com, Chase Capital Partners, GMAC-RFC, Norwest Mortgage and Bank of America as equity partners. Also mortgage investor Freddie Mac, which has provided significant technology contributions, has a financial interest in the new company.

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A new thorn in Microsofts side?

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Microsoft is obsessed with Sun. Microsoft watches AOL´s every move. Microsoft continues to try to second-guess the various Linux players.

But does Microsoft fear BSDI, a.k.a. Berkeley Software Design Inc.? I know Microsoft knows who BSDI is, because it is BSDI´s software that powers Microsoft's HotMail site, despite Microsoft´s best efforts to move it into Windows 2000. But does BSDI keep the "Redmonians" awake at night? Probably not.

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CA China Launches Anti-Virus Software for Windows 2000

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Thanks to Mark for pointing me on this:

Computer Associates (China) Software Co. said it has launched China´s first anti-virus software for Windows 2000.

The company cooperated with China InfoWorld newspaper and Software World Magazine to make available its free software to their readers through the means of InfoCDs and PC Worker compact discs.

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Windows 2000 coming to the AS/400?

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Imagine running Windows 2000 natively on the AS/400. Well, it is at least within the realm of possibility, according to an IBM source.

The source said that within recent months Microsoft made a proposal to IBM to port its Windows 2000 operating system to run on the IBM Power-4 PowerPC processor. That next-generation 64-bit chip is slated for release in the AS/400 server late in 2001. The Power-4 will have 170 million transistors, NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) architecture, and three levels of cache. IBM´s management is investigating the proposal and its status is uncertain, the source said.

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MS gives away Win2k Pro code for free

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Microsoft faces something of a licensing issue in Spain, following the accidental free distribution of an estimated 100,000 copies of full, non time-limited Windows 2000. The code was cover-mounted by the Spanish edition of IDG´s PC World, which we understand has had record-breaking sales for the month.

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Small Business Server 2000 to Appear Third Quarter 2000

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Microsoft is readying the next version of Small Business Server (SBS), to be called SBS 2000, which the company expects to release in the third quarter of 2000. SBS is the central component of the networking strategy for many small businesses and workgroups (up to 50 computers). The current release, SBS 4.5, includes Windows NT Server 4.0, Microsoft Exchange Server, Proxy Server, Internet Information Server (IIS), and SQL ServerBackOffice in a box.

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MS may try to boost WinCE, Linux-style

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Feeling pressure from Linux in the embedded-device market, Microsoft Corp. is contemplating giving Windows CE to some developers for free.

The company is unlikely to go so far as to claim its effort to be Linux-like open source, but it nonetheless seems to hope it can ride the open-source movement´s coattails.

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MS wins more time in Euro antitrust case

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Microsoft has been given a few more days to respond to the European Commission requirement that it provide data relating to the complaint made public last month. This was lodged by end users, SMEs and competitors (including Sun), and concerns alleged leveraging of Windows 2000 in the server market.

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HP punters shout online over missing W2K driver

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Hewlett-Packard customers have started an online forum to complain about the vendor´s lack of W2K drivers.

The Yahoo.com-hosted forum went live this week. Its aims is to shame HP into making a Windows 2000 driver for the Scanjet 4200. Not much to ask for, is it?

Started by a user in Georgia, the Scanjet 4200 club has collected 129 messages so far from HP punters angry at the company´s tardiness.

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Microsoft readies broadband initiative

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AS PART OF a concerted effort to combat America Online, Microsoft is in the early stages of putting together a range of partnerships around a forthcoming broadband initiative.

According to company president and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft will reinvigorate its MSN efforts, leveraging its compression and streaming media technologies to create a platform for distributing Web content over DSL, cable, and satellite links.

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Voodoo 3 3500TV beta drivers

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3Dfx Interactive has posted Windows 2000 beta drivers for the Voodoo 3 3500TV.

Update: The drivers are NTSC only, there is no support in the actual TV beta drivers for PAL.

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New program mimics Napster

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A group of software engineers who work for a unit of America Online Inc. has released an early version of a program that mimics the operation of Napster, popular Web software that allows for the free trading of music files, including pirated ones.

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