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In 1998, the European Commission began investigating Microsoft on grounds that it was illegally using its desktop OS monopoly to squeeze into new markets. At some point along the way, RealNetworks complained that Microsoft was repeating its kill-Netscape tactic by bundling the Windows Media player into Windows. In 2004, the EC agreed, ... Link To Original Article

Reuters - The National Basketball Association has hired the head of Microsoft's China operations to lead a new push into a country that is already its largest market outside the United States, the league said on Wednesday. Link To Original Article

SAN FRANCISCO--Moore's Law has got time left, but we will hit a wall, said Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. "We have another decade, a decade and a half, before we hit something that is fairly fundamental," he said during a question-and-answer session Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum taking place ... Link To Original Article

Yesterday, it seemed like a great thing that Microsoft got swatted by the European Union on antitrust grounds. Today, questions are emerging. The Wall Street Journal has two good articles that deal with the fallout from the ruling. Unfortunately, Microsoft may not be the only one that loses in the judgment. The first article by Charles Forelle calls out the nebulous standard that may be set by the ruling. Namely, if you win (in the market), you may lose (in court): ... Link To Original Article

FT.com - When BT announced its first EU1bn contract for enterprise global services - with Unilever, the consumer goods giant - in 2002, to some it marked a sea change in how telecoms operators were serving corporate customers. Link To Original Article

Virtualization start-up SWsoft announced a partnership with Intel Monday to develop software support for technology built into Intel's newer processors. SWsoft sells two broad categories of virtualization software, Virtuozzo and Parallels. Virtuozzo makes a single instance of Windows or Linux appear, from the perspective of higher-level software, to software ... Link To Original Article

Plus: Web opportunist cuts out middlemen. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

An emboldened IBM challenged Microsoft's desktop application dominance with the introduction on Tuesday of IBM Lotus Symphony, a suite of free desktop applications. Lotus Symphony is made up of three applications--word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs--which IBM already ships as part of Lotus 8. The offering is in beta ... Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - First-year students whose roommates brought a video game player to college studied 40 minutes less each day on average, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. Those 40 minutes of lost study time translated into first-semester grades that were 0.241 points lower on the 4.0 grade scale. Link To Original Article

I have just installed an HP Laserjet 1018. When I run out of paper, the printer sends my computer a message about it, which, after reloading the paper tray, I have to click so that the print job can resume. In Vista, this involves clicking on an Interactive Services window, which blacks out my display for a couple of seconds, before taking me to the window I need to click on to run my print job. Is there any way I can disable this Interactive Services feature, or at least, get it to stop blacking out my display?

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Can someone explain me this. Just downloaded 4GB of Windows Server 2003 VHD (including sharepoint server) As its VHD I was expecting it to work out of the box. Started Virtual PC, added the vhd, booted it, fine till here Just before the login screen comes up, i get an ERROR (wtf?) saying "at least one service or driver has failed please use event viewer.." why am I getting at error on a VHD??? i looked at the event viewer, alot of errors, mostly from sharepoint and SQL server (came with the VHD) Questions: Is it got anything to do with Networking in Virtual PC, at the minute its set on NAT?Where is "Users and Groups" under "Computer Management", its…

Can someone explain me this. Just downloaded 4GB of Windows Server 2003 VHD (including sharepoint server) As its VHD I was expecting it to work out of the box. Started Virtual PC, added the vhd, booted it, fine till here Just before the login screen comes up, i get an ERROR (wtf?) saying "at least one service or driver has failed please use event viewer.." why am I getting at error on a VHD??? i looked at the event viewer, alot of errors, mostly from sharepoint and SQL server (came with the VHD) Questions: Is it got anything to do with Networking in Virtual PC, at the minute its set on NAT?Where is "Users and Groups" under "Computer Management…

Hi, I have a problem with windows auto update, all of my servers ( windows 2003 R2) are configured to download and install the update at 3:00 AM and install them automaticly, but still I see the small picto on the right sid of the window that said the update are downloaded, and ready to install, why it ask if I want to install them? I did enable this option already! and one more issue, when I go to microsoft update page I see some updates there, when I open some of them I can see that the size of the update is 0 kb, what this means? is this means the update already has been installed? if so why is in the list of the updates? Any idea what is going on…

"arts216" wrote: > I use incredimail & when I try to send an e-mail it has a dialog box & says > forbidden, I think someone else on these newsgroups had the same problem. But > it only started to happen a few days ago when I registered with Mircosoft to > sign up for these Newsgroups, If I sign into my hotmail account another box > comes up & I have to match the letters in the box, my brother has a Hotmail > account but he doesn't get this box to match the pictures & he is not > registered with Microsoft. I also have had trouble receiving mail, if I sign > into my hotmail account then send for the mail through Incredimai…

"arts216" wrote: > I use incredimail & when I try to send an e-mail it has a dialog box & says > forbidden, I think someone else on these newsgroups had the same problem. But > it only started to happen a few days ago when I registered with Mircosoft to > sign up for these Newsgroups, If I sign into my hotmail account another box > comes up & I have to match the letters in the box, my brother has a Hotmail > account but he doesn't get this box to match the pictures & he is not > registered with Microsoft. I also have had trouble receiving mail, if I sign > into my hotmail account then send for the mail through Inc…

I posted this on the print_fax forum but have gotten no replies so I will try here. Have two systems doing the same thing. Dell Optiplex computers running XP Professional SP2 with all the latest patches. HP 1018 printer connected via USB and shared. Printer will work for a while and then stop printing. If you stop and restart the spooler the print jobs start again. There is nothing of interest in the Event Viewer when this happens. Any ideas are appreciated.

I posted this on the print_fax forum but have gotten no replies so I will try here. Have two systems doing the same thing. Dell Optiplex computers running XP Professional SP2 with all the latest patches. HP 1018 printer connected via USB and shared. Printer will work for a while and then stop printing. If you stop and restart the spooler the print jobs start again. There is nothing of interest in the Event Viewer when this happens. Any ideas are appreciated.

I recently had a disk cleanup and now on the last 3 boots I've had a stop window indicating a Smart Disk Status message that advises me to back-up my disk. Naturally I'm taking it seriously and will be backing up immediately after this post. What puzzles me though, is that the XP 'Disk Manager' in the Computer Management Console shows ' C: Status - Healthy (System) Fault Tolerance - No' Does disk manager only monitor the windows system? Also could the disk clean be a cause? Or is it just a nasty co-incidence? For the record I used ''Systweak Advanced System Optimizer''. I would have expected error messages during the windows boot or after, but not strai…

Hi, One PDC gives the following FRS error in the event log. What should we do to correct the problem...? regards jake The File Replication Service is unable to add this computer to the following replica set: "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)" This could be caused by a number of problems such as: -- an invalid root path, -- a missing directory, -- a missing disk volume, -- a file system on the volume that does not support NTFS 5.0 The information below may help to resolve the problem: Computer DNS name is "peter.mydomain.LAN" Replica set member name is "PETER" Replica set root path is "c:\windows\sysvol\domain" Replica staging directory pa…

Hi, One PDC gives the following FRS error in the event log. What should we do to correct the problem...? regards jake The File Replication Service is unable to add this computer to the following replica set: "DOMAIN SYSTEM VOLUME (SYSVOL SHARE)" This could be caused by a number of problems such as: -- an invalid root path, -- a missing directory, -- a missing disk volume, -- a file system on the volume that does not support NTFS 5.0 The information below may help to resolve the problem: Computer DNS name is "peter.mydomain.LAN" Replica set member name is "PETER" Replica set root path is "c:\windows\sysvol\domain" Replica s…

thank you sooo much. you are the best. I've been trying to do this all night. You are the fastest yet. And the best. It took like 2 seconds. Thanks again. "BLW3" wrote: > Downloading this link works . I searched for a long time to get a answer it > was the easiest and quickest answer that worked. Thank you. > > "WTC" wrote: > > > The instructions I provided is for removing Policy restrictions which > > enforce the Desktop Background to have only one background and cannot be > > changed by the user. These policy restrictions were most likely caused by > > spyware or malicious software. To simplify the registry edi…

Very annoyingly, some settings keep being reset every time I restart. I class these into 2 categories: 1) Definite errors: I set my wireless connection to use specified DNS servers, which it does successfully, but on reboot, the connection's set to auto DNS again. Also IE looses all the connection-proxy settings, and reverts to a direct connection. 2)?by rubbish vista we don't want you to have control over your own computer design? - I have one startup program that I'm asked if I want to run each and every time I restart. There is a checkbox in the nag window marked ask about this program every time, which I always uncheck, but it still asks me every time.…

Hi, I have the below list confirguration: (wired) Wireless Router + PC - A - 192.168.1.50 XP Home + PC - B - 192.168.1.100 XP Home + PC - C - 192.168.1.150 XP Home (wireless) + PC - D - 192.168.1.200 XP Pro 192.168.0.1 + TiVo with ethernet port PC - D resides in the basement with no ability to hardwire. My TiVo does get to the internet. I have ICS enabled on the wireless adapter and crossover cable connecting network card in PC - D to ethernet port on TiVo. How can I find out the address that PC - D has issued to the TiVo via DHCP? Is there any way to reserve an address for the TiVo within ICS? How can I get to the TiVo through…

Hi, I have the below list confirguration: (wired) Wireless Router + PC - A - 192.168.1.50 XP Home + PC - B - 192.168.1.100 XP Home + PC - C - 192.168.1.150 XP Home (wireless) + PC - D - 192.168.1.200 XP Pro 192.168.0.1 + TiVo with ethernet port PC - D resides in the basement with no ability to hardwire. My TiVo does get to the internet. I have ICS enabled on the wireless adapter and crossover cable connecting network card in PC - D to ethernet port on TiVo. How …