Adobe has just released a free update for its recently released LiveMotion software that is intended to create internet animations (Flash, etc). This Adobe LiveMotion 1.0.2 update features faster performance, improved sound support, better Import and Export capabilities, more efficient SWF compression, tighter integration between Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop®, and updates to the object-based Timeline. If you're a registered user you can download the update right now for free (4.4Mb). Note that the update is available only in English for the moment but multi language updates should be released soon according to Adobe.

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There were some curious inconsistencies in the presentation of Microsoft's Q1 results this week. The income statement showed Q1 2001 income of $2.206 billion compared with $2.191 billion a year earlier - a very modest increase of just $15 million, or less than one per cent. But the press release claimed an 18 per cent increase because of an accounting change (SFAS 133) that Microsoft had to adopt because it is now required that all derivatives be recognised as assets or liabilities - and measured at fair value. Microsoft was not doing this, so took a hit of $375 million.

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Microsoft's "freedom to innovate" slogan inflitrated the Bush campaign slightly last night, as George W fielded a question about the trial in a CNBC interview. He ducked, declining to talk about an ongoing case, but got the I-word into a brief answer, twice.

The Candidate is obviously still kind of talking in code, but from Microsoft's point of view the right triggers were in what he said. "But I will tell you this, I have always stood on the side of innovation over litigation," he said in the more coded part.

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The Court of Appeals judges who'll be dealing with the Microsoft case have decided to give themselves a basic (some might say remedial) computing class before they press on with the matter in hand. An order for a hearing on the subject for the Court says quaintly that it will focus on "basic concepts underlying the fundamentals of automation."

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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is midway through an estimated 10-year effort to develop a new Internet Protocol (IP). The update is being driven primarily by the fact that the Internet, largely due to the explosion of non-PC devices in recent years, is running out of IP addresses -- the codes assigned to every Internet-enabled device, allowing connected systems to find each other.

Although more than 4 billion IP addresses are possible under the current version of the Internet Protocol (IPv4, the network layer of the TCP/IP protocol suite), available addresses will be depleted within a few years if the IP addressing system is not revised. The new protocol, IPv6, will essentially remove the IP address ceiling by converting to 128-bit addresses, thereby freeing the industry to enable as many connected devices, or communication end points, as the market demands.

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Nikon CoolPix users don't wait anymore! Nikon has just released their Windows Me drivers for the CoolPix 700, 800, 880, 900, 950 & 990 digital cameras. With it you'll at last be able to hot plug your Nikon camera to your computer using an USB port. You can download it right now by clicking here (only 2.82Mb). 

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Microsoft Corp. has just released a new game profile for its SideWinder GameVoice device. This profile adds support for the following games:

• Asheron's Call
• Earth 2125
• Fly2k
• Homeworld
• No One Lives Forever
• Starlancer

You can download it right now by clicking here (only 40Kb). Attention: this profile will only work for US & English systems.

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Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) rose 16 percent and was the most active stock on the Nasdaq Stock Market on Thursday after the world's No. 1 software maker posted a fiscal first-quarter profit that easily beat Wall Street forecasts.

Microsoft, rose $8-1/8 to $59-15/16 with some 53 million shares changing hands in the first 90 minutes of trading. As a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, Microsoft helped send the index into positive territory after two days of battering by nervous investors.

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We have just posted Microsoft's latest list of critical patches for the Windows 2000 Operating System. This updated list also designates which prior patches are included in Service Pack 1. Check it out!

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We have just posted Microsoft's latest update for the Windows 2000 Hardware Compatibility List. This text format list has all the different hardware by type and manufacturer that works on the Windows 2000 platform. It's a must have! 2.2 MB!

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Can a leopard change its spots? Maybe only if it's backed up against a wall in a cage, à la Microsoft.

The siege mentality that many have ascribed to Microsoft Corp. as of late can be attributed to any number of factors: The fallout from the never-ending Department of Justice antitrust case; the continuing corporate brain drain; a stock price hovering at more than two-year low.

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Adobe, the well known maker of PhotoShop has just released the new version of its web site designing software. To learn what's new in this release 5, be sure to read our review! Here is a snippet of the review:

In January 1999 Adobe bought CyberStudio their website design solution software named GoLive. This new buy brought to Adobe the control of the graphic chain from A to Z as they now offer a software solution for each need. Since they have bought this software they first adapted it to Windows with the fourth release, as it was originally Mac only software. Adobe now unveils its new release 5 of GoLive that comes with several new enhancements. The aim of Adobe is clear with this release: they want to have a high-end web design software able to compete with Macromedia DreamWeaver 3.0.

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Are you on the look out for a new burning software to burn in all piece of mind your CDR? If so be sure to take a look at our just posted review on the most complete burning software out on the market: Nero 5. Here is a snippet of the review:

WSKA software sent us the latest release 5 of one of the most powerful burning software of the world for review. You’ll probably wonder why this software is called Nero? In fact long ago when the Roman Empire was dominating Europe, a mad Emperor called Nero decided to put fire to Rome just for its viewing pleasure. So this burning software is called that as it’s aimed to put fire to your CD when you burn them. This new release is intended for power users due to its relative complexity and comes with several enhancements.

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Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that soundly beat Wall Street estimates, saying performance was solid across all its businesses and that it was bullish about its key product, Windows 2000 (news - web sites).

Microsoft, which makes the Windows operating system that runs most personal computers, said its net profit in its fiscal first quarter ended Sept. 30 rose 18 percent to $2.58 billion, or 46 cents a share, before including an accounting change, from $2.19 billion, or 40 cents a share, a year earlier.

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Does Gartner hold an internal contest for the best 'look at me' news hooks to be used for its annual Florida Symposium? If so, competition must have been pretty intense this year. But we think Tom Bittman with his combo 'Whistler will slip to 2002, Microsoft is derailing .NET by not dealing with the DoJ, Microsoft should agree a split into two companies' pitch probably clinched it.

Still, Steve Ballmer's reprise of 'I'm a good sport because I keep coming to these things and they kick the crap out of me' deserves an honourable mention. But Bittman first.

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Our AskAW Helpers have been busy answering your e-mail and we have just posted the most recent questions.

We have an archive of questions you might want to search through located at: http://www.activewin.com/askaw/archive/index.shtml

We seem to be back on track and are just about a week or so behind from when you send in you requests.  Anyone sending in a question will receive a follow-up e-mail stating that a response has been posted. If you have a question that you would like answered then just drop us an e-mail at: askaw@activewin.com.

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Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates challenged participants at the Creating Digital Dividends conference, saying that direct technology investments in developing countries might be useless if the population isn't healthy or literate.

"Once you have solved these problems, then you have the chance to bring in the tools of new communication," said Gates, chairman and chief software architect of the world's largest maker of desktop software.

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Rough global economic conditions and a bumpy tech sector have done little to cause Microsoft Corp. executives to dampen earnings expectations for the rest of the year.

The Redmond, Wash., software maker, which beat Wall Street's expectations for its most recent quarterly earnings, says it is on track to complete its fiscal year according to plan.

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said here Wednesday that the software vendor, as part of its new Internet-based .Net computing services strategy, will try to put applications such as Word and Exchange on Palm's market-leading handheld computers and other mobile devices that compete with Microsoft's own Pocket PC technology.

"No offense to the Pocket PC, but we might need to bring .Net services to Palm and other [handheld] devices," Ballmer said during a question-and-answer session in front of an audience of about 7,000 information technology managers at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2000 conference.

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Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in the HyperTerminal application that ships with several Microsoft(r) operating systems. This vulnerability could, under certain circumstances, allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code on another user's system.

The HyperTerminal application is a utility that installs, by default, on all versions of Windows 98, 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. The product contains an unchecked buffer in a section of the code that processes Telnet URLs. If a user opened an HTML mail that contained a particularly malformed Telnet URL, it would result in a buffer overrun that could enable the creator of the mail to cause arbitrary code to run on the user's system. Please note that, although a Telnet URL is involved in this vulnerability, there is no relationship between this vulnerability and the "Windows 2000 Telnet Client NTLM Authentication" vulnerability discussed in MS00-067.

HyperTerminal is the default Telnet client on Windows 98, 98SE and ME. However, it is not the default Telnet client on Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 users who have not taken steps to make it the default Telnet client would not be affected by the vulnerability.

Although HyperTerminal ships as part of several Microsoft products, it was developed by a third party - Hilgraeve, Inc. Additional information on the vulnerability and a patch for their full version product, HyperTerminal Private Edition, is available from their web site at: http://www.hilgraeve.com

Affected Software Versions: - Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows 98SE - Microsoft Windows Me - Microsoft Windows 2000

Patch Availability
- Windows 98 and 98SE: http://download.microsoft.com/download/win98/Update/12395/W98/EN-US/274548USA8.EXE
- Windows Me: http://download.microsoft.com/download/winme/Update/12395/WinMe/EN-US/274548USAM.EXE
- Windows 2000 (can be applied to both Gold and Service Pack 1): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=25112

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New Nvidia Detonator Drivers 6.35 for Windows 9x and Windows Me have just leaked to the web. You can download them right now by clicking here.

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If your computer has a VIA USB host controller, the Force Feedback 2 is incompatible with the USB chip and will not work. A software update is available to correct this incompatibility. NOTE: Computers without the VIA USB chip will not benefit from this software update.

This software update supports Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Millenium, and Windows 2000.

Select a language to download the software update:

• English (148KB)
• French (148KB)
• German (148KB)
• Japanese (148KB)

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I have updated our list of upcoming Microsoft games which will be released later this year or next year. If you heard about a game and want to know it's release date, website and more be sure to check it out!

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Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in Microsoft(r) IIS 4.0 and 5.0. The vulnerability could potentially allow a visitor to a web site to take a wide range of destructive actions against it, including running programs on it.
This vulnerability is eliminated by the patch that accompanied Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-057. Customers who have applied that patch are already protected against the vulnerability and do not need to take additional action. Microsoft strongly urges all customers using IIS 4.0 and 5.0 who have not already done so to apply the patch immediately.

Due to a canonicalization error in IIS 4.0 and 5.0, a particular type of malformed URL could be used to access files and folders that lie anywhere on the logical drive that contains the web folders. This would potentially enable a malicious user who visited the web site to gain additional privileges on the machine - specifically, it could be used to gain privileges commensurate with those of a locally logged-on user. Gaining these permissions would enable the malicious user to add, change or delete data, run code already on the server, or upload new code to the server and run it.

The request would be processed under the security context of the IUSR_machinename account, which is the anonymous user account for IIS. Within the web folders, this account has only privileges that are appropriate for untrusted users. However, it is a member of the Everyone and Users groups and, as a result, the ability of the malicious user to access files outside the web folders becomes particularly significant. By default, these groups have execute permissions to most operating system commands, and this would give the malicious user the ability to cause widespread damage. Customers who have proactively removed the Everyone and Users groups from permissions on the server, or who are hosting the web folders on a different drive from the operating system, would be at significantly less risk from the vulnerability.

Microsoft strongly recommends that all customers running IIS 4.0 or 5.0 immediately apply the patch for this vulnerability. This patch was originally released in August 2000 as a fix for a completely different vulnerability (discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-057), and customers who have already applied it do not need to take any additional action.

Affected Software Versions: - Microsoft IIS 4.0  - Microsoft IIS 5.0

- Microsoft IIS 4.0: http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/critical/q269862
- Microsoft IIS 5.0: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/critical/q269862

Note: The IIS 4.0 patch can be installed on systems running Windows NT(r) 4.0 Service Packs 5 and 6a. It will be included in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 7. The IIS 5.0 patch can be installed on systems running either Windows(r) 2000 Gold or Service Pack 1. It will be included in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.
Note: The Download Center pages discussed above may, for the next several days, only reference the "File Permissions Canonicalization" vulnerability. However, we are updating the pages to state that it applies to both that vulnerability and this one.

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The European Commission said on Tuesday it had given U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) extra time to answer charges it is abusing its power to gain an edge in the global market for server software.

The Commission, the antitrust watchdog for the 15-nation European Union, in August sent Microsoft a legal warning ``for allegedly abusing its dominant position in the market for personal computer operating systems software by leveraging this power into the market for server software''. It initially gave Microsoft two months to respond, but has now extended that deadline, a spokeswoman said.

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Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund on Tuesday said shares of Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) may be due for a ``relief rally.'' Sherlund said Microsoft may bounce back from the new 52-week low of $49-9/16, touched on Monday, particularly if there is no bad news in its earnings report, expected after the stock market closes today, or in a subsequent conference call.

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Today’s busy consumers are demanding easier ways to access relevant information from the Web, regardless of their device or location, and MSN is meeting that demand. Today, at CTIA Wireless I.T. 2000, Microsoft released MSN Mobile 3.0, the newest version of the MSN wireless service. Launched in June 1999, MSN Mobile was the first major portal to provide wireless information delivery. New users, along with the 1.5 million unique users who already enjoy MSN Mobile, will now be able to access new integrated features and content. Recent agreements with the three leading U.S. carriers clearly mark MSN as a leading provider of content and services to the U.S. mobile market and highlight MSN's continued success in delivering content and services across a wide range of devices, giving consumers more opportunity to access MSN from the device that is best for them. PressPass spoke with Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of MSN at Microsoft, to talk about this milestone for MSN Mobile.

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Microsoft Corp. today released MSN^® Mobile 3.0, the newest version of the MSN wireless service. MSN Mobile, launched in June 1999, was the first major portal to provide wireless information delivery. Since then, MSN Mobile has registered more than 1.5 million unique users and has relationships with carriers to be a featured part of the service on more Web-enabled phones in the United States and Canada than any other major portal. MSN Mobile content and services are featured on Web-enabled phones in the United States through its relationships with Nextel Communications, Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless and will soon be available on over half a million Web-enabled phones in Canada through agreements with Bell Mobility, Clearnet Communications Inc. and Rogers AT&T Wireless.

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As the 2000-2001 basketball season prepares for tipoff, Microsoft Corp. and Infinite Mobility Inc. today announced that the champion Los Angeles Lakers will standardize on a comprehensive digital scouting solution using Infinite Mobility's Pocket Hoops on Microsoft^® Windows^®-powered Pocket PC personal digital assistants (PDAs). Pocket Hoops, which takes advantage of the color, touch screen, voice recording and HTML-based Pocket Internet Explorer browser software capabilities of Pocket PCs, offers the Los Angeles Lakers' scouts an efficient way to track all necessary information for an unlimited number of players, including digitized shot-charts, drop-down ratings, voice recordings, notes and more.

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Although Microsoft's Xbox won't arrive until next fall, gamers have a brief opportunity to snag one in an online auction for charity. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant has donated a half-dozen of the game consoles in an Amazon.com auction sponsored by a video-game trade association. The auction comes as bidders on eBay are offering nearly twice the asking price for this holiday season's hot item--Sony's PlayStation 2.

Winners won't get the Xbox until it starts shipping next fall. But in the meantime, they will have a hand-signed certificate from Bill Gates assuring that they will be one of the first with the console.

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Today at Convergence 2000, the premier automotive electronics conference, Microsoft Corp. announced the introduction of its Car.NET platform, an advanced new generation of infrastructure technology that brings computing and communications to the automotive industry in a revolutionary way. Car.NET offers technology and service providers the tools for extending today's computing experience into the automobile - opening up the world of the wireless Internet to motorists in a safe and secure manner.

Car.NET has its origins in the Microsoft^® .NET initiative, which permits the creation of distributed Web services that will integrate and collaborate with a range of complementary services. These services, combined with in-vehicle electronics - audio and video, telephone, navigation and telematics (which integrates vehicle control and monitoring systems with location tracking and wireless communications) - will empower carmakers, automotive suppliers and service providers to make traveling easier, more entertaining, less stressful and safer. Car.NET envisions an end-to-end framework, which includes in-vehicle computing clients powered by Microsoft Windows^® CE for Automotive and a server infrastructure based on Microsoft Mobile Information Server for Automotive.

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Today at Convergence 2000, the premier automotive electronics conference, Microsoft Corp. announced the introduction of the Microsoft^® Windows^® CE for Automotive v.3 operating system. It will enable system manufacturers to build next-generation, in-car computing systems that improve safety, communications, information and entertainment.

"The market for in-car computing is poised to embark on an amazing journey," said Bob McKenzie, general manager of the Automotive Business Unit at Microsoft. "Safety and security services are among the most important criteria to motorists. They want access to Internet-based information such as news, traffic updates, instant messaging, navigation assistance and other services. They also have a keen interest in back-seat entertainment systems. Windows CE for Automotive is designed to provide these features and more by delivering state-of-the-art reliability, flexibility and connectivity."

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that "Christian Bioethics," the new book from H.E Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, has been released as an eBook in the Microsoft^® Reader format. Attending the event were Cardinal Tettamanzi, archbishop of Genoa; Dick Brass, vice president of technology development at Microsoft; Pietro Marietti, chief operating officer of Edizioni Piemme, publisher of Cardinal Tettamanzi's book; and several key members of the press.

Publishing this dynamic work as an eBook will greatly improve access to this important topic, making it available to a larger audience, and helping to clarify the dialogue on this key topic that affects people all over the world. The eBook version of "Christian Bioethics" is available for download to PCs, laptops and Pocket PCs at http://www.bioeticacristiana.it/.

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Microsoft today announced that Links 2001, the most significant upgrade to the Links series in over a decade, has gone gold. This means that the product is completed and is expected to hit store shelves in the U.S. during the week of October 30. Links 2001 features an entirely new rendering engine that delivers unprecedented ball physics and graphics, as well as the Arnold Palmer Course Designer, which allows PC golfers to re-create their home courses with the same tools used by the Links 2001 team. Links 2001 offers gamers new tour players -- including Sergio Garcia, Arnold Palmer and Annika Sorenstam -- as well as new golfer animations and personalities, customizable club distances that allow for an even more accurate re-creation of a player's actual game, and faster and easier online play. The game also features courses such as the Four Seasons Resort Aviara in San Diego, Chateau Whistler in the Canadian Rockies, The Prince Course at the Princeville Resort in Kauai, Fred Couples' Westfields Golf Club in Virginia, and the newly created Mesa Roja located in the canyon lands of the southwestern United States. A perennial favorite, St Andrews Links Old Course, has also been enhanced for this version. The long-awaited Arnold Palmer Course Designer (APCD) makes its debut in Links 2001. The APCD provides users with the power and versatility to accurately recreate courses in a powerful, real-time 3D system. Players can tweak every inch of fairway with the APCD and create tunnels and arches with full control over each point on the course. A robust library of trees, shrubs and other vegetation allows players to sort for the climate and season that fit their home course, or they can import their own custom images. Links 2001 will be available for an anticipated street price of US$49.

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PowerQuest, the famous software maker of Partition Magic, has announced it'll release a free update 2.07 for its Second Chance software intended to work with Windows Me. Existing users of Second Chance will be able to update their software free of charge directly from the software using the online update feature. Multilanguage update should be available within the next few days. Be sure to read our review of SecondChance 2.07.

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I've just updated my review of PowerQuest Second Chance 2.07 that is now compliant with Windows Me. Here is a snippet of it:

Have you ever installed a software update that failed, erase a system file or get a virus that accidentally crashed your system? If so, you know that restoring to a healthy working system is painful and can be a chase just to find the origin of the failure and that is just the beginning of the problem. If you aren’t yet a Windows Me user, PowerQuest has got a software solution for you named Second Chance 2.0. As its name indicates, Second Chance 2 will give you a second chance to restore a working PC environment.

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Today at the CTIA Wireless IT show, OmniSky Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced that OmniSky's award-winning wireless Internet and e-mail service will be extended to the Microsoft^® Windows^® Powered Pocket PC platform. This latest offering gives customers the first color mobile access to OmniSky's service and furthers OmniSky's strategy to support leading platforms, which allow the company to offer branded wireless Internet services across a range of mobile handheld devices.

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Today, Luis Lada, president of Telefónica Móviles, and Paul Gross, senior vice president of Microsoft Corp.'s Mobility Group, extended their current agreement -- to deploy a new generation of mobile Internet services for corporate and consumer customers -- by establishing a joint executive advisory team to rigorously assess and plan new mobile products and services for Telefónica Móviles' corporate and consumer customers. The advisory team deepens the relationship between the two companies and creates the opportunity for senior representatives from both companies to work side by side on developing new and innovative services for Telefónica Móviles' customer base.

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I've just posted my in-depth review of Microsoft Project 2000, the project management software solution from Microsoft. Here is a snippet of it:

Microsoft has released a few months after its new Office 2000 software suite, a new version of its brand new project management software. This new version was long awaited since the previous one was released in 1998. When Microsoft Corp. first introduced in 1990 Microsoft Project 1.0 for Windows, the software was one of the first of its race. Since then this kind of project management software has grown relatively fast and is now used by almost every person responsible who is in charge of a project in the computers and services business sectors. Microsoft Project 2000 is the sixth release of Project and is aimed to conquer even more users than the already existing 3 million. The basis of Microsoft Project 2000 is to provide workers management software that is easy to use and flexible to plan and track the evolution of their collaborative projects.

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Patch Availability: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/critical/q273868.htm

Note: The patch requires IE 5.01 SP1 to install. Customers who install this patch on other versions may receive a message reading "This update does not need to be installed on this system". This message is incorrect

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MSN.CA launched MSN Mobile in Canada, using Internet enabled cellular telephones and wireless devices to bring its online services to Canadians. This roll out is a key component of the Microsoft .NET strategy.

Bell Mobility, Clearnet and Rogers AT&T Wireless will make the wireless communication and information service available to their customers this quarter. These alliances will bring MSN.CA's services to users when they are away from their PCs, reaching the majority of Canadian Web-enabled mobile phones, pagers and other hand-held devices.

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Microsoft Corp. opened a new technology center in Austin Thursday that will allow online retailers and other dot-coms to design and test a variety of tools.

The 12,000-square-foot center will provide a demonstration platform for companies trying to decide between Microsoft-Intel offerings and competing strategies from Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Linux. The center, Microsoft's second site, will enable companies to accelerate product development and get products on the market rapidly.

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Microsoft's dominant position in software will hold steady even as PC-centered computing wanes, Bill Gates, the company's chairman and chief software architect said Thursday at an Intel-sponsored event.

Gates predictably championed his company's Windows 2000 operating system and Microsoft's recently released line of enterprise servers as confirmation that the software maker will have a place in Internet-based enterprise computing. He also announced new management software called Microsoft Operations Manager, due out next year. The chairman then presented a series of standards-based management interfaces called .Net Management Services and a partner program called the Microsoft Management Alliance.

According to Gates, NetIQ will provide its Operations Manager product to Microsoft for use in Windows 2000 and Microsoft server applications. Ching-Fa Hwang, CEO at NetIQ, joined Gates on stage to demonstrate some of his company's management tools, including automated and consolidated error fixes for servers. The NetIQ product could help large companies manage data when hundreds or even thousands of servers are in use.

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Attorneys for Microsoft Corp. [NASDAQ: MSFT] will head to the Federal District Court in Baltimore Friday to argue that 37 of the 63 consolidated lawsuits brought against the company for overcharging on its Windows operating system should be thrown out due to Supreme Court precedent.

In addition to its battles with federal antitrust regulators and attorneys general from 19 states, Microsoft is fighting more than 130 class-action lawsuits from individuals claiming that the software giant used its monopoly power in the operating systems market to grossly overcharge for its Windows OS.

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Microsoft has posted a new compatibility update for Windows 2000. The October 2000 package addresses the following software titles:

Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing v.1 (Mindscape)
Bass Master’s Classic Tournament Edition v.1 (THQ Inc.)
Cart Racing v.1 (Sierra On-Line)
Civil War 2 Generals v.1 (Sierra On-Line)
Crayola 3D Castle Creator v.2.1 (IBM Corporation)
Descent II v.1.1 (Interplay Productions)
Disney’s Villain’s Revenge (Disney)
Driver’s Education 99 v.1 (Sierra On-Line)
Dungeon Keeper: Gold Edition v.1 (Bullfrog Productions)
Encyclopedia Britannica ’99 (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
FIFA ’99 (Electronic Arts)
Force 21 v.1 (Red Storm Entertainment)
Heart of Darkness (Interplay Productions)
Leap Ahead 2nd Grade v.1 (Mattel Interactive)
Leap Ahead 3rd Grade v.1 (Mattel Interactive)
Madeline Preschool (Mattel Interactive)
PGA Championship Golf 1999 Edition v.1 (Sierra On-Line)
Quicken Deluxe ’99 (Intuit)
Quicken v.6 (Intuit)
Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain v.1 (Eidos Interactive)
South Park v.1 (Acclaim Entertainment)
The Baby-Sitters Club 4th Grade Learning Adventure v.1 (Mattel Interactive)
The Clue Finders 3rd Grade Adventures (Mattel Interactive)
The Clue Finders Adventures: Personalized Learning Center (Mattel
Interactive)
The Crystal Key (DreamCatcher Interactive)
Triple Play ’99 v.1 (Electronic Arts)

http://microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/deployment/appcompat/default.asp

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Microsoft has reminded us of the Nite to Unite Auction item they have up for bidding, the X-Box autographed Bill Gates leather coat.

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Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in Microsoft(r) virtual machine (Microsoft VM). If a malicious web site operator were able to coax a user into visiting his site, the vulnerability could allow him to take any desired action on a visiting user's machine.

The Microsoft VM is a virtual machine for the Win32(r) operating environment. It runs atop Microsoft(r) Windows 95, 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000. It ships as part of each operating system, and also as part of Microsoft Internet Explorer. The version of the Microsoft VM that ships with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and Internet Explorer 5.x contains a security vulnerability that could allow a Java applet, on a malicious web site to take any desired action on a visiting user's machine.

The Microsoft virtual machine (Microsoft VM) contains functionality that allows ActiveX controls to be created and manipulated by Java applications or applets. This functionality is intended to only be available to stand-alone Java applications or digitally signed applets. However, this vulnerability allows ActiveX controls to be created and used from a web page, or from within a HTML based e-mail message, without requiring a signed applet. If a user visited a malicious web site that exploited this vulnerability, a Java applet on one of the web pages could run any desired ActiveX control, even ones that are marked as unsafe for scripting. This would enable the malicious web site operator to take any desired action on the user's machine. Web sites placed within the Restricted Sites zone in Internet Explorer will not be able to exploit this vulnerability.

Versions of the Microsoft VM are identified by build numbers, which can be determined using the JVIEW tool, as discussed in the FAQ. The following builds of the Microsoft VM are affected:
- All builds in the 2000 series.
- All builds in the 3100 series.
- All builds in the 3200 series.
- All builds in the 3300 series.

- 2000-series Microsoft VM customers will be provided with an update soon.
- 3100-series Microsoft VM customers upgrade to build 3318 or later from: http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm
- 3200-series Microsoft VM customers upgrade to build 3318 or later from: http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm
- 3300-series Microsoft VM customers upgrade to build 3318 or later from: http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htm

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