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• Improve network performance

  Windows 2000 uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP to communicate with earlier Windows platforms. If all your networked workstations are running Windows 2000 however, you can disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP to improve overall network performance.

• The Year 2000 in review

  The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

• Microsoft tries new tack in licence deals

  Microsoft's decision to remove language from a licensing agreement that has long rankled computer makers reflects a growing willingness by the software giant to tweak the way it does business, according to analysts.

• Windows only for $140m government tender

  The Northern Territory government has released details of its four-year, $35 million per annum desktop sourcing tender.

• Bill Gates to step down from full-time role

  Bill Gates, the man who started Microsoft and has been its public face throughout its three decades of existence, plans to step away from daily work at the company.

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• Improve network performance

  Windows 2000 uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP to communicate with earlier Windows platforms. If all your networked workstations are running Windows 2000 however, you can disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP to improve overall network performance.

• Windows only for $140m government tender

  The Northern Territory government has released details of its four-year, $35 million per annum desktop sourcing tender.

• Microsoft patch freezes some systems

  A patch for a security flaw that affects Microsoft's Web server software running on Windows 2000 has caused system freezes for some customers, the company said Thursday.

• Office users at risk from 'critical' flaw

  Microsoft issues another herd of vulnerability reports, including a "critical" security hole in numerous Office applications that could let a hacker take control of a PC.

• Microsoft releases three new security bulletins

  Microsoft has released a batch of updates that affect Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, Outlook Web Access (OWA) for Exchange Server 2003, and Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC).

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• Analysis: Microsoft's OS update

  Underneath the sheen, what's Windows Vista made of? We take a detailed look at the recently delayed operating system.

• Is Internet Explorer 7 a marketing ploy?

  Is Internet Explorer 7 just another security patch disguised as a "new" offering? Should it rightfully be called IE 6.1 for Windows XP Service Pack 2, asks Fran Foo.

• New Windows Server, XP versions roll

  Microsoft announced Friday that it had released two high-end operating systems to computer manufacturers.

• Windows faces new competition: Itself

  In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.

• Office 11 beta due next month

  Microsoft will be shipping the second beta version of Office 11 next month, complete with XML tools.

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