==================================================================== SEARCHWIN2000.COM DAILY NEWS May 30, 2001 More headlines at: http://www.searchwin2000.com/searchWin2000_News_Page/0,2008,,00.html ==================================================================== SPONSORED BY: Informio ==================================================================== **********HEAR EMAIL BY PHONE! WIN A BOSE WAVERADIO/CD!************* Be one of the first to VOICE empower your Microsoft Exchange email with Informio SpeedMail. Listen to messages, compose, send, forward, browse, and reply to email all by phone. Sign up for a **FREE BETA TRIAL** by July 1 and enter to win a Bose Wave Radio/CD Player!!! Space is limited! Click NOW: http://www.informio.com/forms/Searchexchange2.asp ==================================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LEAD STORY "Microsoft to investigate Passport security 'flaw'" Is a flaw stamped on Microsoft's Passport? A silicon.com reader reports he found a potential flaw in the authentication engine (and key piece of .Net). Passport allows users to control their licenses over the Web -- the silicon.com reader says his account also gave him access to the account details of another Microsoft license holder. MS is investigating. SOURCE: silicon.com http://www.it-director.com/frame.asp?name=Silicon.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esilicon%2Ecom%2Fpublic%2Fdoor%3FREQUNIQ%3D991210471%266004REQEVENT%3D%26REQINT1%3D44732%26REQSTR1%3Dnewsnow ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Microsoft security: Good, bad or ugly? Sound off in our poll at http://www.searchwin2000.com/poll. Do you give a darn about .Net? Tell us how you feel about Microsoft's latest initiatives. Sound off at http://searchwin2000.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?50@@.ee83d6b. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MORE ON THIS TOPIC: For more information on .Net, visit http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid1_tax285410,00.html. Get smarter about security at http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid1_tax559,00.html. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- TODAY'S WINDOWS 2000 AND INDUSTRY NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Microsoft to launch Office XP Thursday [2] Vendors offer slew of Itanium wares [3] Unisys preps ES7000 for 64-bits [4] Software aims to let Linux run Windows programs [1] "Microsoft to launch Office XP Thursday" Free food! The only catch is, you need to go to New York City. The Big Apple will be the big launchpad for Office XP. Microsoft will shoot it into the marketplace tomorrow at a big shindig, which will include product overviews of Office XP and Visio 2002, a sneak peak of Windows XP and a party that's open to the public. SOURCE: Wininformant http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=21266 Office XP: Debutante and debatable. Read about the controversy in the Office at http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/05/30/010530hnxpreac.xml. [2] "Vendors offer slew of Itanium wares" Hardware and software vendors are coming out of the woodwork and bearing gifts to celebrate Itanium's birth. Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, Compaq, Dell and Emulex are all hopping aboard the bandwagon, with Itanium-based products serving as their boarding passes. SOURCE: IDG News http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0529vendors.html [3] "Unisys preps ES7000 for 64-bits" Now that the 64-bit Itanium chip has fallen, Unisys is talking more about its Wintel server. Since the 64-bit processors from Intel are finally here, Unisys officials say the ES7000s that customers already have can be field upgraded to 64-bit processors. The company is also priming ES7000 servers with up to 32 Itanium processors running the faster 800 MHz flavor of Itanium. SOURCE: ENT Magazine http://www.entmag.com/breaknews.asp?ID=4555 [4] "Software aims to let Linux run Windows programs" There's a different kind of wine connoisseur in Saint Paul, Minn. Wine is an evolving software that will let you run many Windows programs on machines with little or no trace of any Windows operating system. Just add Linux to run the programs. The Winemakers eventually want to create a vintage that anyone can use to run Windows apps for day-to-day work on Linux machines. 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Request your evaluation copy today: http://www.quest.com/landing/searchwin2k_activeroles.asp -------------------------------------------------------------------- WEB LINKS OF THE DAY -------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] "Visual Studio.Net - A platform for Web application development" Columnist Robert Williams shares highlights and major points of his interview with Dave Mendlen, Microsoft group product manager, regarding Visual Studio.Net. Williams' impressions: Though the .Net jury is still out, anyone intent on developing software for the Internet in a Microsoft-centric environment should definitely consider Visual Studio.Net. SOURCE: Windows 2000 Advantage http://www.windowsnt-advantage.com/tech_edge/03-12-01_visual_studio.asp [2] "Web services with ASP.Net" Starting with a high-level overview of Web services and ASP.Net, this Microsoft column briefly defines Web services and shows the code for a simple SOAP message. Then it gets grittier, going into deep detail on how to write, test and build a Web service using ASP.Net and ASP.Net pages. SOURCE: Microsoft http://msdn.microsoft.com/voices/asp02222001.asp -------------------------------------------------------------------- THE MISSING LINK -------------------------------------------------------------------- A look at an off-the-wall story off the Web "Some fight 'cyber' schools in Pennsylvania" Cyber school may be cool, but the burgeoning movement has angered some Pennsylvania superintendents who say they didn't know the virtual schools in their district even existed until they got socked with the tuition bills. Now, the school board there has filed a lawsuit against two cyber schools, which enroll about 600 students, citing the schools were operating illegally under a state-mandated charter school program. But it may be the tuition bills that have really gotten their goat. The cost? Anywhere from $5,000 to $11,000 per student. 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