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Microsoft Launches XP Media Center Edition
by Arie Slob
Hello Windows users,
 Last Tuesday, Microsoft announced the North American availability of Windows® XP Media Center Edition via HP Media Center PCs. HP Media Center PCs, are now available at more than 1,400 retail outlets including Best Buy, Circuit City Stores Inc. and CompUSA in the United States, Future Shop Ltd. and Best Buy in Canada, and direct from HP.
"Windows XP Media Center Edition greatly enhances consumers' ability to use their PC for both work and play," said Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. "This newest member of the Windows XP family enables consumers to enjoy the best of what digital entertainment has to offer and takes us into an exciting new era of personal computing."
Powered by Intel Pentium 4 processors, HP Media Center PCs are optimized to take full advantage of the capabilities of Windows XP Media Center Edition. Intel's Pentium 4 processor offers the higher-performance processing needed to deliver significant performance gains for a best-in-class home entertainment experience. Building on the rich media platform launched one year ago with Microsoft Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition turns a PC into a media center that integrates digital entertainment experiences with the freedom of remote-control access. Consumers can enjoy live television, personal video recording, music, photos, videos and DVDs from a new remote-controlled PC experience called Media Center. The sleek Media Center interface serves as a unified destination for entertainment on the Media Center PC and is designed to be viewed from anywhere in the room. Windows XP Media Center Edition is ideal for digital media enthusiasts and consumers, such as teenagers, college students, young adults and families, who must operate in small, space-constrained environments and who want to use their PC for entertainment and digital media.
The specs on the HP Media Center PC, are quite impressive: besides the Pentium 4 processor it features a recordable DVD drive, a 120GB hard drive, front-accessible media drive slots, a TV tuner card, and 5.1 channel surround sound capabilities.
For a review of Windows XP MCE see Paul Thurrot's SuperSite for Windows.
Microsoft's Windows XP MCE Web site also has an extensive product overview and demos.
Microsoft Security
Unchecked Buffer in PPTP Implementation Could Enable Denial of Service Attacks
Microsoft released a patch for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP, to fix a vulnerability which could allow Denial of Service Attacks against those systems when using the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).
Affected Software Versions
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
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Windows 2000 Default Permissions Could Allow Trojan Horse Program
On Windows 2000, the default permissions provide the Everyone group with Full access (Everyone:F) on the system root folder (typically, C:\). This situation gives rise to a scenario that could enable an attacker to mount a Trojan horse attack against other users of the same system.
Affected Software Versions
Microsoft Windows 2000
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Added: Microsoft Security: Unchecked Buffer in PPTP Implementation Could Enable Denial of Service Attacks
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Windows XP
Added: Microsoft Issues New Movie Maker Beta
Added: Microsoft Launches XP Media Center Edition
Added: Adjust Windows XP DNS Cache Settings
Added: Microsoft Security: Unchecked Buffer in PPTP Implementation Could Enable Denial of Service Attacks
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Highlights
Identity Theft Risks Mount
It's not so simple as using a paper shredder to protect your identity lately, have you considered online billing?
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Long-awaited Microsoft decision due out late afternoon
The federal judge overseeing a remedy in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust case will issue her opinion late afternoon, Friday 1st November, the court said yesterday. Although it probably won't be the end of the case, it will be a key point in the antitrust case that began in the fall of 1998. The ruling is expected to be available at approximately 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. Microsoft will comment on it on their Legal News PressPass Web site.
Microsoft Issues New Movie Maker Beta
Microsoft today released the beta version of Windows® Movie Maker 2 for Windows XP, a new and completely redesigned video editing application. According to Microsoft, the new Windows Movie Maker 2 offers dramatic improvements for Windows XP customers to remove the complexity and confusion from home video editing. Windows Movie Maker 2 offers powerful new features with over 130 new kinds of video effects, titles and transitions to help even novice PC users create their own home movies with a professional touch.
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Windows XP Tip: Adjust Windows XP DNS Cache Settings
Windows XP includes a cache where responses to queries of DNS (Domain Name System) servers are stored on the local machine. In some cases this could lead to errors (like that lovely "Cannot find server or DNS Error" in Internet Explorer). Read the tip for more info.
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02 Nov. 2002, Vol 5 No. 44
