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- A $50 rebate coupon for Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition.
- A $50 rebate coupon for Microsoft Office XP Standard, Professional SE, or Developer Edition.
- A $100 rebate coupon for Microsoft Visio Professional 2002.
- Special launch offers from Microsoft and industry partners, including 25% off Windows XP training from participating Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centers.
The European Commission said Monday it was not examining Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, due to go on sale next week, as part of an antitrust investigation into the U.S. software giant. Amelia Torres, spokeswoman for EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti, told a news briefing, "At this point, the Commission is not examining XP officially or unofficially." She was responding to a report in The Financial Times on Monday that Monti planned to start a preliminary inquiry into Windows XP and had sent the company a number of questions to discover if the bundling of new software applications into the operating system was anticompetitive.
The government and Microsoft, having failed to settle their landmark antitrust case before the first deadline imposed by a federal judge, now must work with mediator. As earlier reported, lawyers representing Microsoft, the Justice Department and 18 states delivered the news of their failure to reach a settlement in a conference call on Friday with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, said sources familiar with the telemeeting. Later on Friday, the judge as expected appointed a mediator proposed by the parties. Eric Green, a law professor at Boston University, will work with the two parties through the remainder of the discussions. As settlement negotiations move closer to a court-imposed Nov. 2 deadline, the introduction of the mediator could intensify talks that Kollar-Kotelly has previously said should proceed "24 hours a day, seven days a week." But whether the sides can settle may hinge on what changes Microsoft is willing to make to its new operating system, Windows XP.
Still two weeks before Windows XP makes its official debut in New York, Microsoft has begun to prepare updates to the feature rich operating system. Windows Messenger, XP's controversial built-in version of MSN Messenger, will receive the first of such enhancements to be made available for download on October 25. In addition to numerous design changes, Windows Messenger will now allow users to make PC-to-phone calls directly from within the client. Currently partnered with Callserve, Dialpad, Net2Phone, and TELUS, Microsoft aims to further expand service offerings through the company's Voice Services Program. These carriers will allow customers to track call times and account information via Windows Messenger, but remain independent.
Apply now and join a select group of testers who will receive early access to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 as well as private newsgroups and chat sessions. Registered members of the program are promised a first hand look "Yukon", the next major milestone in the evolution of SQL Server. The first service pack was introduced in July to address lingering issues that were discovered after the retail ship date. Beta releases are not intended for production systems. Microsoft recommends that its customers continue to run the current maintenance release until the service pack 2 code has been signed off and completed.
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On Monday, October 15, a worldwide marketing campaign will ring in Microsoft's Windows XP marketing blitz. Redmond's appeal to the masses will be "Yes you can" -- a broad attempt to illustrate the experiences that its latest edition of Windows can offer. The campaign will focus on product experiences such as communications and mobility for work and digital photos and music for home. Microsoft is hoping that XP will fly off the shelves in a "Ray of Light" and has enlisted Madonna's popular song of the same expression to "convey a sense of optimism for what people and businesses can do with a Windows XP PC."
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SQLXML enables XML support for your SQL Server Database. It allows developers to bridge the gap between XML and relational data. You can create XML View of your existing relational data and work with it as if it was an XML file.
MSXML 4.0 offers a number of new features and improvements over the MSXML 3.0, including support for the XML Schema language; substantially faster parser and XSLT engine; better support for streamed XML processing; improved conformance; and bug fixes. MSXML 4.0 is not a complete replacement for MSXML 3.0, because some obsolete and non-conformant features are no longer supported. MSXML 4.0 installs side by side with MSXML 3.0 and earlier, without any interference.
The 3D Windows XP screensaver shows off the power of DirectX matched with the bright colors of Windows XP. Basic system requirements: Windows XP and a 16 MB video card.