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Save your receipt for Small Business Server 2000 -- so you can get the rebate! Microsoft is offering $500 cash back on the next "Bobcat" version of SBS and the "Titanium" release of Exchange. Channel partners get the rebate for service to small business customers who buy SBS 2000 from Aug. 1 through January 31. Other vendors can qualify by offering some type of deployment, training or maintenance service.
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Microsoft to invest $500 million into partners (eWEEK)
Microsoft is making pecuniary pledges to partners, saying it will put half a billion dollars into its 800,000-plus-member partner community. The company says that the investment will be in people, marketing, support, tools and programs. The company also promised not to compete with partners.
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Microsoft to unveil media format's name (CNET)
Microsoft will give its digital media technology, currently code-named "Corona," the official name of "Windows Media 9." The technology is a weapon in Microsoft's arsenal against open-source competition on the digital media battlefield. Analysts think Microsoft is counting on Windows Media 9 to help sell Windows software for servers and embedded devices.
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Settling for justice
A year has passed since an attempt to break up Microsoft broke down. Today the company, bearing a few scars from the whole experience, inches closer to a settlement with Uncle Sam, although nine states find the deal unsettling.
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QUICK HIT OF THE DAY
Finding storage space for outer space
As director of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), Dan Werthimer oversees the collection and storage of radio-wave emissions from hundreds of billions of stars. The program has harnessed the spare computing power of nearly four million volunteers, creating what is believed to be the largest distributed computing environment in existence. This massive logical computer network has a simple goal: analyze radio wave patterns trying to detect if intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
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Dear Expert,
How can I completely remove AOL IM from my users' computers? I run NT 4.0 workstations and have uninstalled IM under the administrator account. I have even have traced some registry keys to remove IM's presence, but every time a user logs in, there is an error stating the OS cannot find C:Program..., which is the IM program. How do I completely remove every reference from the user's side?
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Exchange 2000: Messaging to the max
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Ticket sites see gold in "Austin Powers"
Imagine how awful it would be to arrive at the theater -- eager to see Austin Powers' date with Destiny's Child and his latest battles with his dastardly enemies -- only to find out everyone else had the same idea. Imagine if the movie were sold out and your only alternative was the Powerpuff Girls movie. That's a storyline that would scare even Stephen King! If you go to the virtual box offices of Fandango, Movietickets.com or Moviefone, you can avoid such sorry sojourns to the cinema. Those sites are already selling "Goldmember" tickets, and you know you've got a blockbuster brewing if the Net is selling tickets two weeks before the box office does. Opening day for the Austin Powers "threequel" is July 25.
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