NT Compatible - General (Page 82)

850 chipset delays Pentium 4 launch

General 8068 Published 2000-09-29 22:12 by Philipp Esselbach 0

A flurry of behind the scenes activity at the Intel Corporation has failed to convince tier-one vendors they should stand up on 30 October and pledge their whole hearted support for the Pentium 4 platform.

And the problem, once more, lies with the chipset rather than the so-called "brains of the computer", the microprocessor.

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Whistler Beta 1 slips two weeks to October 25

General 8068 Published 2000-09-29 13:10 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Sources close to Microsoft tell me that the important Beta 1 release of Whistler, the next version of Windows 2000, has slipped two weeks from October 11 to October 25. The Whistler release schedule--which was reported first in WinInfo Daily Update last month--was to culminate in a final release next April.

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ZoneAlarm 2.1.43 Beta

General 8068 Published 2000-09-28 13:16 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Thanks to Sune Bredahl for informing me that ZoneAlarm 2.1.43 Beta is now available.

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Media Player 7 Reaches 10 Million Downloads

General 8068 Published 2000-09-27 23:00 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft Corp. today released download statistics that show overwhelming consumer demand for Microsoft

Windows Media Player 7, the first all-in-one digital media player designed to appeal to mainstream computer users. More than 10 million copies of the player were downloaded in the first six weeks following its release. This rate of adoption shatters the adoption of such popular software as Internet Explorer 5 and services such as the Hotmail

Web-based e-mail service, which took four months and 18 months, respectively. Microsoft previously announced that Windows Media Player 7 shattered download records for a jukebox launch with 3.4 million downloads in its first 10 days of availability.

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Microsoft Windows Datacenter Program

General 8068 Published 2000-09-27 22:55 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Today at the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch, Steve Ballmer, president and CEO of Microsoft Corp., together with industry partners kicked off the availability of the Windows

Datacenter Program. The launch marks the delivery of Microsoft´s and industry partners´ joint commitment to provide customers with reliability, scalability and the best business investment for mission-critical computing environments. Industry partners announcing solutions today include Compaq Computer Corp., Unisys Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., IBM Corp., Stratus Computer Systems, Amdahl Corp., ICL, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu-Siemens, Bull and Hitachi. Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, coupled with the Microsoft

.NET enterprise servers, represents a significant step toward the delivery of the .NET Platform.

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Microsoft ushers in the .NET era with new servers

General 8068 Published 2000-09-27 22:51 by Philipp Esselbach 0

A bit premature, perhaps, but Microsoft has officially ushered in the .NET era with the release of its first .NET Enterprise Servers, such as SQL Server 2000 and Exchange 2000 Server. In a move aimed right at high-end rivals such as Sun Microsystems, Microsoft also announced the immediate availability of its scalability and reliability champ, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, which features support for 32 processors and 64 GB of RAM. Microsoft president and CEO Steve Ballmer says that Tuesday´s launch event marked the beginning of a new era of competition between Sun and Microsoft. "The .NET Enterprise Servers will start to erode the size of the market Sun plays in," Ballmer confidently stated before the launch event.

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Microsoft targets high-end computers with new Windows

General 8068 Published 2000-09-27 11:37 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The software maker today unveiled a new, high-end version of Windows 2000 and related business software aimed at eroding the dominance of companies such as Sun Microsystems and Oracle in running the largest business computers that power the Internet.

At a press conference here, Microsoft announced the release of Windows 2000 Datacenter, the latest flavor of the Windows 2000 family of operating systems for businesses. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer headlined the event with a 90-minute keynote speech.

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Microsoft pushes back release of e-commerce software

General 8068 Published 2000-09-27 11:36 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft has again pushed back the release date for a key piece of its e-commerce infrastructure software.

Company officials at a press conference here today said BizTalk Server 2000, Microsoft´s software for linking different computing systems to exchange data and conduct business over the Web, is still in development and will not debut until next year.

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ICQ 2000b Beta v4.56 Build #3264

General 8068 Published 2000-09-27 11:33 by Philipp Esselbach 0

ICQ Inc. has released a new beta of ICQ 2000.

ICQ (I Seek You) is a user-friendly Internet program that notifies you which of your friends and associates are online and enables you to initiate contact with them. With ICQ, you can chat, send messages and files, exchange Web page addresses, play games, create your own homepage, surf the Net with your friends, and much more. With the click of your mouse, you and your friends are instantly connected. All these functions are organized in one easy-to-use program that integrates smoothly into your desktop. ICQ allows you to work on other applications while having a whole range of Internet functions at your fingertips.

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ABIT Introduces the VP6 for Dual PIII CPUs

General 8068 Published 2000-09-26 20:18 by Philipp Esselbach 0

ABIT is proud to announce the launch of the VP6. This dual processor motherboard is a follow-up to the immensely popular BP6. The VP6 is an ATX form-factor mainboard designed for use with all PIII Coppermine FC-PGA 370 Processors. It supports all normal industry standard functions, including Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI), AGP 1X/2X/4X and 100/133MHz SDRAM Memory Bus Settings. The VP6 features four 168-pin DIMM sockets supporting up to 2GB memory.

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Microsoft fetes heavy-duty version of Windows 2000

General 8068 Published 2000-09-26 14:15 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft is throwing a coming-out party today for its high-end Windows 2000 operating system and e-commerce software.

At a press conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft will announce the release of Windows 2000 Datacenter, the latest flavor of the Windows 2000 family of operating systems for businesses. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will headline today´s event with a 90-minute keynote speech.

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Weekly Memory Prices

General 8068 Published 2000-09-26 14:14 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Sharky Extreme has updated their weekly memory pricelist.

The Rear View #4

General 8068 Published 2000-09-26 14:04 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Sharky Extreme has posted the fourth issue of The Rear View.

MS ´componentized´ OS to be follow-up to Win2k Whistler?

General 8068 Published 2000-09-26 13:56 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Signs that the goalposts are moving again were - appropriately enough - embedded in the spin surrounding Microsoft´s push for CE and NT Embedded at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose today. The company came up with quite a lot of not very obviously interesting stuff designed to put some oomph back into the somewhat underperforming embedded and appliance division marketing spiel, but way, way down at the bottom there was a strange blurt about the operating system that comes after Whistler.

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NTFS file system article

General 8068 Published 2000-09-24 18:06 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Digit-Life has posted a NTFS file system article.

Sun, Microsoft Square Off For Enterprise, E-Commerce

General 8068 Published 2000-09-23 20:26 by Philipp Esselbach 0

On Tuesday, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Wash., will host what employees have dubbed "Serverpalooza" in San Francisco. There, president Steve Ballmer will finally announce availability of Windows 2000 Data Center Edition, SQL Server 2000, and BizTalk Server 2000 among others.

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Pentium 4 to debut next month

General 8068 Published 2000-09-23 20:22 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Pentium 4, which will initially come out at 1.4 GHz and 1.5 GHz, will serve as the cornerstone of the company´s processor line for the next several years. The chip will first appear in high-performance desktops, but later migrate to servers, workstations, notebooks and subsequent generations of processors.

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