The Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides the latest product updates to Office 2000 and offers you the highest levels of performance and security available for Office 2000. It can be installed by enterprise, small business, or individual users. Office XP SP3 addresses issues described in several previous Microsoft Security Bulletins as well as in several previous downloads.

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This document is a cumulative list of the articles that have been written to discuss hotfixes that have been released since the release of Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and Windows XP Service Pack 1. Click the Q# of the Knowledge Base article below to view the article.

Release Candidate 0 is now available for download @ betaplace.com for all MS testers.

Release Note: We have only released the SDK, SDK Extras and DirectMusic Producer downloads. The End-User Runtime and the SDK Sample Binaries will be posted soon.

Just spotted this @ Geeknewz.com: MSN Messenger Service is an easy way to take advantage of the full power of instant messaging. It even makes popular e-mail programs like Microsoft Outlook Express and MSN Hotmail easier and more convenient to use. With MSN Messenger Service, it's never been easier for you and your friends to talk online.

Computer and Video Games.com reports that according to some rather paranoid sources, here's what developers in the UK have been told to work towards by Microsoft: According to sources, Xbox 2 games about to go into development are looking at the following specs as a guide: 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 central processor, 512MB of RAM, NV30 graphics chip.

Seems that there was a C*** up with the DirectX 9.0 Build 9.0.308 web setup file! Monkeyboy originally leaked the wrong web setup file, but he has corrected his mistake by leaking the REAL web setup file for build 9.0.308 which can be downloaded now. Well if your brave enough you can try again by clicking Read More ... LOL

Here it is. The unofficial fix list for Windows XP SP2. I want to make sure that you understand that SP2 isn't even close to beta yet, so this by no means is the final list and new fixes are added almost daily. Check back often for updates to this.

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Visual FoxPro 8.0 Beta Available for Download Visual FoxPro 8.0 Beta includes everything you need to write, build, and test Visual FoxPro 8.0 applications. Take advantage of new XML Web services features, and new and improved compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Visual FoxPro is an extremely powerful application development tool for building database applications, whether on the desktop computer, client-server, or on the Web through components and Web services.

Just spotted this @ Activewin.com:

Windows Update for Windows 9x machines has been updated to version 4 as seen in Windows XP or Windows 2000. A new version of the critical update notification has also been released.

This update resolves the IEEE 802.1x Authentication Cannot be Enabled on Computers Running Windows 2000 issue and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q313664. Download now to install 802.1X authentication on your computer.

This interim release is very close to what we will be releasing as Release Candidate 0. We are releasing this now to get early feedback to ensure that Release Candidate 0 is as polished as possible. Please note the Interim Release does not receive the same degree of testing as Beta and Release Candidates. You may wish to review the DirectX 9.0 Readme before or after any of your downloads. Also, we suggest you familiarize yourself with the testing guidelines Testing Guidelines. Read more

DeC[iP]hEr from #Betas on irc.BETASONLiNE.com has made screenshots of Office 11 Beta 1.

Thank you for your interest in participating as part of the Office Individual Evaluation Program during the pre-release period for the next version of Office. The enrollment for Beta1 is now closed. No additional participants for Beta 1 are being accepted as of Friday, October 4, 2002 at 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. If you would like to nominate yourself for participation in Beta 2, you may do so by following the instructions in the Signing Up section below.

This update addresses the "Inconsistent Gap Count Can Cause 1394 Devices to Not Enumerate" issue in Windows XP, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q329256. Download now to allow 1394 devices to enumerate.

This update addresses the "Explorer.exe May Generate an Application Error When You Close a Folder" issue in Windows XP, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q329692. Download now to resolve the application error when closing folders.

Outlook 11 will, by default, no longer grab data such as images from outside servers when previewing e-mail formatted like Web pages. The ability to send and receive e-mail formatted in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) was at one time touted as a feature in Microsoft's e-mail programs. "We've taken a step backward, so to speak, by blocking external content when you preview e-mail," Simon Marks, Office XP product manager, said this week. Marks described the new feature as an important spam-fighting tool.

Microsoft released SP1 for some time ago, but now it seems that the M$ guys are working on SP2. I found a lot of hotfixes on their FTP server. Some of the files are already available at WindowsUpdate. More will be available there soon as we know M$. Downloading this small fixes is useless because they are password protected.

Click read more to get on the FTP...

On Windows 2000, the default permissions provide the Everyone group with Full access (Everyone:F) on the system root folder (typically, C:). In most cases, the system root is not in the search path. However, under certain conditions - for instance, during logon or when applications are invoked directly from the Windows desktop via Start | Run - it can be. Read more...