Win 98 Beta 1, IE4 Delayed Again & MSCBS??
(06/30/97) Last Week's News News Archives

Microsoft posted the first public beta of Memphis (Windows 98, the Elvis of OSes) on winbeta.microsoft.com late Monday night. Following that, 10,000 CDs of the same program were mailed to testers around the world. Brace yourselves for at least 9,900 computer crashes sometime in the next week. Microsoft has said memphis will be on sale late this year, which means they should have it released by mid-summer 1998.

Development partners close to the company say that Internet Exploder 4.0, an intregal part of Memphis, won't be ready for release until at least next September. Microsoft, of course, still says it will be ready by the end of July.

Microsoft filed software piracy and copyright infringement lawsuits against Tucson, Az. computer resellers Computers Under Retail and Future Information Design because of some suspicious copies of NT 4.0 Server they installed. News reports have not specified if the companies actually pirated the software or just did the simple registry changes that make standard NT into NT Server (an action Ms considers worse than murder). Sadly, the millions of people around the globe saddled with using NT Server every day are yet to sue Ms for false advertising.

The second NT Server patch in a week was posted on the Ms WWW site Monday afternoon. This newly discovered bug was used by hackers to once again shut down Microsoft's badly battered and overloaded site last Sunday.

LinkAge Software, a Canadian 'e-mail connectivity and directory synchronization software maker' and all its assets were purchased by Microsoft Corp late last week. LinkAge technology is used in both Ms Exchange and Lotus Notes to enhance document attachment abilities. Everyone together now: "If they can't beat 'em, they buy em!"

The W3 consortium's new privacy standards will be implemented in Microsoft's new internet products the company said Wednesday afternoon. Expect these new standards to be hijacked and destroyed by Ms in the same fashion as it destroyed other internet standards like Java.

Stories have been circulating all over the 'net since The New York Post reported that Ms had been looking into the CBS's financial stability and might buy the #2 network. Microsoft, CBS parent Westinghouse and interested buyer Seagrams all denied the rumors. Update would bet money it never happens, but we also know how unpredictable Microsoft is.

Saturday, 16-Nov-2002 17:22:42 EST