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Delta Force HQ send words that the Delta Force Land Warrior Patch v1.00.23 has been released. It addresses issues for some players who were being dropped from Multiplayer games. It´s 3.3 MB, get it here:

Novalogic´s Mirrors:
http://216.233.128.126/pub/updates/dflwrev0/xx/df3upd8c.exe
ftp://ftp.novalogic.com/pub/updates/dflwrev0/xx/df3upd8c.exe

Delta Force HQ:
http://files.landwarrior.org/cgi-bin/ftp.cgi?browse&landwarrior/latest_update

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Speaking at a London press conference earlier this month, Jim Ewel, Microsoft vice president for IT infrastructure and hosting, announced that the upcoming Windows release known as "Whistler" will include a range of new security options, including one that will block any software lacking a valid digital signature.

Though implemented in response to e-mail-attachment viruses like the "Love" bug and Melissa, the new feature will extend to "every piece of code executing on the machine," Ewel told British reporters.

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Whistler Beta 1, in its current non-feature-complete state, represents an extremely small step forward for Microsoft Corp.´s flagship enterprise/consumer operating system, but more advances are planned for the final release, which is expected in the second half of next year.

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Beta 2 of the desktop applications suite, released late last month, offers not much new on the speech recognition front and only somewhat more improve ment elsewhere compared with the troubled first beta, testers said. Much of the promised functionality lacking in the first beta included offline storage; translation options; and speech recognition technology that will let users write and edit documents using type commands, voice commands or both simultaneously.

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In investigating a complaint from Sun Microsystems, one of the biggest makers of computers that run Web sites, the commission said it found evidence that Microsoft used its dominant position in the market for personal computer operating systems to block out its rivals in the server market. Server computers link networks of personal computers.

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The public Whistler newsgroups are now available at the Microsoft newsserver (news.microsoft.com).

The newsgroups are:
microsoft.public.whistler.personal.general
microsoft.public.whistler.professional.general
microsoft.public.whistler.advanced-server.general

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Intel Corp. hopes to quench consumers´ thirst for power with the launch Monday of the Pentium 4, but it is also counting on attracting workstation users in what appears to be a marketing turnabout for the company and some PC makers.

The Pentium 4, to be introduced at 1.4GHz and 1.5GHz clock speeds, features a new architecture designed not only to provide faster frequencies but to boost performance of multimedia encryption, such as that involved in audio and video editing.

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A joint effort by Ariba, IBM and Microsoft to build a giant electronic Yellow Pages for online businesses moved forward Thursday with the launch of a test Web site.

The trio in September proposed a Web standard and a new initiative that lets businesses register in an online directory aimed at helping companies advertise their services in order to find each other to conduct Web transactions.

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3dfx Interactive:registered: Inc. (NASDAQ:TDFX) reiterated today information that was disclosed in a recent Form 8-K filing regarding its current business strategy. The company, which has held the number one retail graphics position since December 1998, plans to maintain its dominant retail position, expand into the OEM PC business, and to license its core graphics technology, code-named Mosaic, into non-PC markets.

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When it comes to competing with open source free software like Linux and Apache, Microsoft isn't willing to uncloak its code yet. But Microsoft recently showed it is willing to try a little bit of the free part to get its foot in a Web hoster's door.

Friday at ISPCON, Brian Valentine, senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows Division, announced a change to the Windows Web Hoster Program that can result in up to 25 free licenses of Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

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