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(hx) 03:13 AM CET - Mar,22 2003
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- Microsoft slashes Japanese Xbox operation - The Japanese arm of
Microsoft's Xbox division is to see personnel reductions across the board, as
the console continues to struggle in the Far East - but the company denies any
scaling back of the Xbox operation itself in the territory. The headcount of
the 200-person strong
division will be cut by 34, with reductions affecting personnel in both
marketing and production. The company claims that these changes are being made
to improve the profitability of the business. It's not clear whether the
departments affected are purely related to the sales, distribution and
promotion of Xbox in Japan, or whether development personnel will also be hit.
- Office 2003 may pose antivirus problem - The latest test version of
Microsoft
Office 2003 could cause problems for antivirus companies because the
XML-based format it supports will bog down scanning software, according to
security experts. The problem centers on macros embedded in documents in
the Office 2003 beta, or test, version. When saved as an XML (Extensible
Markup Language) file, the macros can more or less wind up anywhere. This
means that scanners must search the entire contents of a file, rather than
examine the part of the file where macros are always positioned.
- Microsoft Warns of Firewall Flaw - Microsoft is warning customers
of
another security vulnerability, this one affecting its Internet Security
and Acceleration Server 2000 firewall and Web cache product. A software flaw
was found in the ISA Server's Domain Name Service intrusion detection
application filter that could allow an attacker to launch a denial of service
attack against the ISA Server that prevents that device from processing DNS
requests.
- Microsoft Asks Colleges to Teach Hacking -
Microsoft is working with a number of universities in several countries to
set up courses that teach students how to write secure code, the company said
Friday. The University of Leeds in England is the first to announce such a
course. As part of an 11 week module that will start in January next year,
third-year undergraduates at the University of Leeds will be asked to hack
into software and fix any security bugs they find, Nick Efford, senior
teaching fellow at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, said.
- CeBIT 2003, full report - Hardware Analysis has published their
CeBIT 2003 report with lots of pictures.
- First Opteron Pricing - After publishing the exclusive Opteron
Launch Schedule on the 17th of March and being the first to group all known
Opteron distributors in one single page, AMDboard is publishing the first
Opteron
official price taken from an official price list coming from one of the
leading Opteron distributor in the USA.
- Sweet Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro Card - Hercules has provided
a first product shot of their upcoming Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. The
card features a brighter blue PCB than what we are used to from the earlier
9700 Pro and again sports the well received copper cooling solution and memory
heatsinks. The card comes at standard clock frequencies: 380Mhz core / 340
memory on a 256bit bus with an initial 128Mbyte setup.
- Windows XP Embedded with SP1 - Microsoft has released an update for
Windows XP Embedded with SP.
This update (Q816654) addresses a potential problem when using EWF on
certain Windows XP Embedded with SP1 runtimes. In some cases, a blue screen
error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL can occur during EWF usage.
- History of Windows - Neowin has an article that
shows the progression of Microsoft Windows from pre-windows 1.0 through
the 2003 server.
- List of Win2k post SP3 fixes updated -
The list of hotfixes released after windows 2000 service pack 3 came out
has been updated.
- Programs Run Slower After You Install Windows XP SP-1 - This
problem may occur if the programs you run frequently allocate and deallocate
large blocks of memory. Changes in Windows XP SP1 in the memory management
system have caused this operation to take significantly longer than with
pre-SP1 Windows XP.
This fix (isn't publicly available) may receive additional testing.
Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, Microsoft
recommends that you wait for the next Windows XP service pack that contains
this fix.
- ZoneAlarm v3.7.143 (Free) -
ZoneAlarm provides solid PC protection for the home user. It's free for
personal and non-profit use (excluding government and educational entities.
- Nullsoft Winamp 2.90 Beta - Nullsoft has made available
Winamp 2.90
Beta (what's
new)
- HyperSnap-DX 5.04.02 -
HyperSnap-DX 5 (download)
is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens
from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D,
3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games.
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