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Intel launched 12 new mobile processors on Monday, ranging from its fastest mobile chip yet to the first .13 micron version of its entry-level mobile Celeron chip. PCs using the new processors will be available from the top 10 U.S. vendors starting Monday, Intel said. The new offerings are split between versions of Intel's high-end mobile chip, the Pentium III processor-M, which was formerly known as Tualatin, and its value-priced Celeron chips. The company also launched two new versions of its 830 chipset that feature integrated graphics controllers.

Software maker Novell on Monday sued Microsoft for alleged false advertising and demanded that its competitor publicly renounce the statements. In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Novell accuses Microsoft of false and misleading statements about Novell's software in a direct-mail advertising campaign targeted at Novell's customers last month. Novell is seeking monetary damages and an injunction to halt Microsoft's ad campaign. Novell also wants Microsoft to correct its alleged misstatements with a new advertising campaign, the suit said.

Microsoft Exchange Server and Mobile Information Server Embrace .NET To Deliver Global Information Access to the Enterprise.  "With over 94 million seats licensed, Exchange is now the leading solution for enterprises that demand mission-critical messaging systems," Flessner said. "This momentum demonstrates that customers are responding to the benefits of unified directory and management, Outlook Web Access, the integration between Exchange and the rest of the .NET Enterprise Server family, and the ability to build XML Web services today, allowing them to respond to business problems with greater speed and intelligence."

Concern about the economy "is even a bigger reason for Microsoft to step up and push this product," says Jim Cullinan, lead product manager for Windows XP. He says the company has tweaked its marketing language slightly to reflect the country's somber mood, though he would not provide details. Otherwise, it's moving forward with an aggressive, $1 billion campaign to sell Windows XP. The company won't reveal specific sales expectations. But the stakes are clearly high. IDC estimates operating systems accounted for more than one-third of Microsoft's total revenue in the calendar year 2000, and the vast majority of that was from client operating systems such as Windows XP.

Intel wants to help popularize the ultra-portable laptop. To that end, the chipmaker will launch five new low-power Pentium III-M chips Monday. They include low-voltage chips at 733MHz and 750MHz, two at 800MHz, and an ultra-low-voltage 700MHz model. The Pentium III-M, which uses Intel's new 130-nanometer (0.13-micron) manufacturing process, was introduced in late July. Intel offers three flavors of mobile Pentium III chips: standard, low power and ultra-low power. The latter two offer lower power consumption and clock speeds and are designed to be used in smaller notebooks, such as ultra-portable models weighing 4 pounds or less.

Microsoft and online film service CinemaNow on Monday plan to announce technology aimed at simplifying the creation of Web-based video-on-demand networks. Marina Del Rey, Calif.-based CinemaNow said the application, dubbed PatchBay, can be licensed to distributors who want the necessary ingredients to manage a Web-based video-on-demand service, including content distribution, digital rights protection, targeted advertising, as well as pay-per-view and subscription services.

Microsoft Corp. today announced pricing and availability for two new levels of subscription services to the MSDN developer program that will provide its most important customers - developers - with the information and software they need to successfully build XML Web services and applications. Now every level of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET has a corresponding level of MSDN subscriptions, providing developers with a clear path from the tools to the services that will make them successful. MSDN now offers five subscription levels, each tailored to suit the varying needs of professional developers. Through the priority access feature, subscribers to MSDN will continue to be the first to receive the latest Microsoft products, such as Visual Studio .NET, server and operating system technologies and product information.

Microsoft plans to include APIs for writing advanced instant-messaging apps in the upcoming Windows.Net server, and may build a separate real-time collaboration server to manage them. Two application program interfaces and a communications update to TCP/IP are scheduled to appear in beta 3 of Windows.Net server, due in November. With them, IT departments and independent software developers could build apps that let workers send instant messages that are encrypted, securely hosted, and allow for more sophisticated types of file transfer than is available today in Microsoft environments, according to Microsoft execs.

An Indonesian court ordered a Jakarta, Indonesia-based computer dealer to pay Microsoft $4.4 million in compensation for copyright infringement and to make a public apology. According to a Microsoft statement, Pro-com was found guilty by the West Jakarta Court of loading unauthorized copies of Microsoft's Windows and Office software onto computers and selling the PCs without the appropriate documentation, license agreements, original disks or manuals.