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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14595)	12/2/1997 8:01:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

MSN restores email to AOL news.com Well, this is sort of dull, but I'm doing my best to avoid saying anything about the war on some drugs. The particular little spat in this story is amusing mostly in the names of the principal spokeguys. An MSN spokesman said today that DeMello's theory was accurate. D'Amato yesterday said the theory was wrong, but today said that an investigation would show what the cause was. You say D'Amato, I say DeMello- Let's call the whole thing off. Cheers, Danello

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14595)	12/2/1997 8:09:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

BackOffice to embrace (and demolish?) Internet news.com So, announcements are rolling out this week, funny nothing much was said at Comdex. Never mind. Complicating matters for the BackOffice update is the current state of Windows NT Server. The current version--4.0--has made large inroads in small networks and departments within big companies, but even Microsoft executives admit that it will not be until Windows NT Server 5.0 ships that the company can truly make a case to enterprise customers. The release of NT 5.0 remains shrouded in mystery, though Microsoft executives recently divulged that a second beta release of the OS will not see the light of day until the first half of next year. That could easily stall final shipment until 1999, according to industry observers. MacDonald said, "It's entirely likely that it could slip until 1999, but we're still telling our clients late 1998." Due to the complex directory and security enhancements in the next version, however, MacDonald said there would likely be a lot of bugs to iron out in the software. The Gartner analyst predicts widespread deployment of NT 5.0 on the server will not occur until the year 2000. Well, there you have it. Mysterious NT 2k, The OS for the next Millenium! You heard it here first! Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14595)	12/2/1997 8:17:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

IE 4.0 gets an upgrade news.com Just two months after the initial release of Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft today issued an upgrade to the browser that fixes several known problems and also adds "accessibility features," such as enlarged fonts, to help disabled users. Hey, was there a terminology upgrade too, from "known issue" to "known problem"? If so, it's an improvement, but I have a feeling that was just editorial license at work. But today's upgrade also addresses a major IE 4.0 bug that turned a user's PC desktop blank once the software was installed and the system rebooted. "It only affected specific classes of machines," said Internet Explorer product manager Dave Fester. "There were not general bug problems across the board for everyone." Well, I guess it was a good thing that it didn't turn everybody's screen blank, or maybe it would have been better that way. Good to see the old marketing peers back at work, anyway. Cheers, Dan.