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ActiveState Tool Corp. has bridged one of the gaps between Linux and Windows 2000 with the beta release of Visual Perl, a plug-in for Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET that offers a full-featured, integrated development environment for Perl.

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Adrian´s Rojak Pot has just posted the following press releases :

Hercules and Thrustmaster Launch Online Shops - "Special offers and easy payment plans make it the best way to shop"
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VideoLogic DigiTheatre and DigiTheatre DTS Press Release - "Award Winning Speakers Turn PowerStation 2 into Complete Home Cinema
Solution"
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PowerColor PowerVR 3 EVIL KYRO Official Release - "64MB EVIL KYRO will challenge the mainstream high-end graphics card"
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The company planned to discontinue its NT certification program on Dec. 31, a move that many suggested was part of a plan to boost sales of NT´s successor, Windows 2000. Contending there are thousands of people who want to become NT certified despite the product´s demise, testing specialist Lanop recently announced that it will offer its own NT Certified Independent Professional (NT-CIP) certification.

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Today at Streaming Media West 2000, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp. president and CEO, unveiled the new Windows Media Audio and Video 8 beta technology for the delivery of audio and video over the Internet. Achieving new benchmarks for the delivery of the highest-quality audio and video in the smallest bandwidth, Microsoft´s new compression technology enables the delivery of film content at near-DVD quality across Internet broadband connection speeds as low as 500 Kbps, and near-CD-quality audio streams on a 48Kbps connection. The Windows Media Audio and Video 8 beta is compatible with Microsoft:registered: Windows Media Player 7 and 6.4, and offers content owners the benefits of improved quality and lower bandwidth costs while reaching more than 220 million Windows Media Players worldwide.

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Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM), pricing and licensing of Microsoft:registered: BizTalk Server 2000. Today, more than 50 customers are building a broad array of Internet-enabled business solutions that integrate applications, platforms and businesses over the Internet. The latest release in the Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server family, BizTalk Server 2000 is the industry´s only comprehensive solution that unites enterprise application integration (EAI), business-to-business integration (B2B) and BizTalk Orchestration technology to allow companies to easily build dynamic business processes that span applications and organizational boundaries.

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At the time Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW) sued Microsoft more than three years ago for allegedly failing to comply with Sun´s Java licensing terms, Microsoft was actively pushing its own version of Java, called J++. In recent months, Microsoft has put all its eggs in its C# (pronounced "C-sharp") basket -- and developers are wondering aloud when Microsoft will officially dump J++ and move on.

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Lord Kolya send words that the 61st issue of ZZZ online is out.

The following topics are covered in the latest issue of ZZZ online:
- flying skateboard
- atomic clock
- wind farm in sea

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During the first beta cycle for Microsoft´s forthcoming version of Windows, codenamed "Whistler," some disturbing feature omissions came to light. Previous versions of Windows -- specifically, Windows NT and Windows 2000 -- allowed the user to create a set of boot disks (three disks in NT and four in Win2K) that could be used to install the operating system on an empty or damaged system. Beta 1 of Whistler no longer had that option.

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In an effort to show momentum behind its yet-to-be-released enterprise firewall and Web caching product, Microsoft announced that customers have requested 250,000 copies of pre-release code for Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000.

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Microsoft last week pared down the security warnings it sends by email to the Bugtraq and NT-Bugtraq mailing lists as well as to 130,000 other subscribers who want to know about vulnerabilities and fixes to Microsoft software, said Scott Culp, Microsoft´s security program manger. Instead, the emails include a link to a Web page with additional details.

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