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Mike Menkedick
Microsoft Legal Issues
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s you have probably already heard, Microsoft and the U.S. Justice department are at odds over shipping Internet Explorer with Windows 95 OEM products. Microsoft has been ordered to pay one million dollars a day in fines (petty cash to Microsoft). Microsoft is fighting the order - not because of the fines - but because Internet Explorer is tightly integrated in Windows 98, and they feel a web browser will be the future user interface of the operating system.Novell Not Year 2000 Compliant
Novell’s Netware 3.12 and 4.1 clients are not compliant with the year 2000. Novell is to soon release a patch that fixes the problem. However, the 3.12 patch must be applied to each individual client machine, and cannot be automatically distributed through the network. There is also a server patch available. The problem: when the clock rolls over to 2000, the year will be reset to 1988
Intel Releases I2O Standard
Intel has announced the I2O standard, which will increase server performance by allowing coprocessors to handle the server’s I/O. Intel will be developing new integrated circuits to meet this standard. Novell and SCO have agreed to develop new server software to support this standard. Microsoft has stated they are not developing I2O support currently for NT 5.0, but it is believed a service pack will be released later to support this new technology.
Intel is also developing a spec called Wired for Management (WFM), due out in the second half of 1998, that would address automatic problem resolution and disaster recovery tools for network nodes.