by Arie Slob

Dear Windows-Help.NET Subscriber, Last week Microsoft announced plans that it is going to make Office applications available over the Web. This comes shortly after an earlier announcement by Sun Microsystems Inc., which announced plans to make office applications from the Star Division available (for free) on the Web. It was just two weeks ago that Sun announced its acquisition of Star Division Corp., a developer of office productivity applications (Star Office). According to sources, Microsoft had been planning this move for the past few months, and the move is not merely a reaction to Sun's announcement. No details about a timetable were disclosed, or whether the service would be offered for free. Some people see this as the future for office software but others are more cautious. The Internet itself is not reliable enough as an infrastructure. Lots of people still remember the recent MCI outage - what will office workers do if they can't use their applications for 3 days? InfiniSource, Inc. launches software division: Rose City Software InfiniSource, Inc. has launched its new software division Rose City Software, featuring new releases of some of its award-winning programs... popular applications like TweakDUN, DU Meter and ClipCache, all updated within the past several weeks. Rose City's newest release is version 2.5 of ClipCachePlus, released during the second week of September. Developed by Xrayz Software in collaboration with Rose City Software, this important upgrade to the widely acclaimed Windows® Utility adds a whole new scope to clipboard enhancement with some extraordinary text cleanup features... one-click removal of annoying ">>>>" from email one-click removal of whitespace and large gaps from text copied from webtables one-click removal of linebreaks case change, powerful search and replace capabilities one-click stripping of HTML tags merge clips to create lists ClipCachePlus is an invaluable aid to word processing, email, and web surfing. Like David matching wits with Goliath, this modestly priced utility offers infinitely more powerful features than the widely touted "Enhanced Windows® ClipBoard" offered by Microsoft's Office 2000. Yet ClipCachePlus is intuitive and easy to master. ClipCachePlus is available as fully functional 30 day trialware and is very reasonably priced at just $19.95. The release of ClipCachePlus is one more indication that Rose City Software is committed to serving the Internet Community with useful, inexpensive, downloadable shareware. Your e-mail Address: You cannot afford to not be on the Free2Try dispatch!! The best and latest offers on free2try.com as well as offers that are available through other sites, each week delivered to your mailbox on Wednesdays.

QuickPoll
Last week's question was about Microsoft's products security. Here are the results:

What do you think of Microsoft's products security?

• Poor 59%
• Same as other software 30%
• Good 10%

• 78% are concerned about these "Issues"
• 21% are not

This week's QuickPoll: What is your Year 2000 (Y2K) situation? Participate in the QuickPoll... you'll find it on the Windows 98 Tips home page.

WhatCpuIs v1.01 (Beta 1)
WhatCpuIs is a utility to display the type of microprocessor in your PC. Simply use WhatCpuIs to find out the type of microprocessor, without opening your computer.

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Windows 98 Tip
Using ScanReg

Another of those enhancements which makes using Windows 98 more user friendly is the ScanReg Registry Checker.

Each day, after a successful boot, a backup copy of your registry is created (containing the System.dat, User.dat, System.ini and Win.ini files).

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What Are Windows 95/98 Fatal Exception Errors
See this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article for information on these cryptic errors.

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