Thanks to Neowin.net for the Info:

Internet Explorer shuts down unexpectedly because of an access violation. This problem may occur if you have set Windows and buttons to Windows XP style. The Windows and buttons option is on the Appearance tab of the Windows XP Display Properties dialog box.

... That Contains Gzip-Encoded Content

When you browse the Web, you may notice that frames on some Web sites are not displayed correctly, and the HTML code may not be fully rendered.
This issue may occur after you install the Internet Explorer hotfix from the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

331596 Data Is Truncated When You Download a Gzip-Encoded Excel File in Internet Explorer

... When the Recipient's Capabilities Are Not Known

All versions of Outlook Express, including the version that is shipped with Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, use RC2 40-bit encryption when the recipient's encryption capabilities are unknown.

This fix permits you to use 3DES instead of 40-bit encryption when the recipient's encryption capabilities are not known.

Microsoft has issued a new knowledge base advisory in which the software company announces the availability of a fix for a "Slight Delay When Windows Media Player 9 Series Switches Files Streamed from a Windows Media Services 9 Series Server". The symptoms you may experience are: When you stream files from a Windows Media Services 9 Series server, you may notice a delay of five or six seconds when you switch between files.

Last night, build 4029 of Microsoft's next big thing, Windows code-named "Longhorn", was leaked to the web by the folks over at #betas on irc.ufnet.org... Despite the fact that it was compiled back in June, this is still the latest milestone-build of Longhorn that ever surfaced outside Microsoft's campus.

We reported earlier that Microsoft is in planning to release the first beta of Windows Server 2003 Service-Pack 1 to selected beta testers shortly. The Wait it Over now!!!

More than a month before retail availability, the final version of Office System 2003 (sporting build #5606) has already been leaked to the net. The leak comes in on 5 CDs and includes all the well-known members of the Office System family as well as the two latest additions, OneNote and InfoPath.

Microsoft Germany announced, that they have plans to distribute update or patch CD's in supermarkets / grocery stores which are selling high volumes of Microsoft Windows equipped computers.
This piece of news was reported by the german newspaper "Wirtschaftswoche".
This idea is the result of the latest heavy worm attacks from viruses like Sobrig or Blaster which took advantage of unpatched and unsecure systems of computer users. Also a fully automatic online update feature in the next Windows Versions is planned. If other countries will use these distribution ways is not know yet.

Wie heute die Wirtschaftswoche berichtet, plant Microsoft Deutschland Updates CD´s mit wichtigen Systemupdates / Patches über grosse Discounter wie Lidl oder Aldi an die Endkunden abzugeben.

In Frage für das neue Verteilungssystem kommen Häuser, die in grossen Mengen PC-Systeme, die mit Windows ausgestattet sind, an den Endverbraucher abgeben.

Diese Idee ist ein Resultat der letzen Sobrig / Blaster Attacke, die ein Sicherheitsloch in Windows ausgenutzt hatte und zu Tage brachte, inwiefern von Microsoft ausgegebene Warnung und Updates beachtet werden.
Desweitern ist eine vollautomatische Updatefunktion in den nächsten Windows Versionen geplant. Quelle: Internet.Com

On Monday 08 Sept 2003 we reported that Security expert http-equiv on Full-Disclosure had managed to exploit the flaw that the MS02-032 patch was supposed to fix.

Now Microsoft responsed to Neowin about the issue. "Microsoft is investigating public reports that one of the vulnerabilities that was fixed in the original update appears affected. It appears there is a new variation of the vulnerability that has caused the scare".

News.com reports: Microsoft said Monday that it will open the specifications for its video compression technology, which would allow other companies to make products based on its technology.
The world's largest software maker, which launched its latest video and audio standard Windows Media 9 series in January, said it submitted the standard to the society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) on Monday for review. Acceptance by the international standards body would allow Microsoft's Windows Media 9 to be more easily adopted by other companies since the specifications would be open for all to see.

This update addresses the "Availability of the Windows XP SP1 USB 1.1 and 2.0 Update" issue in Windows XP and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article 822603. Download now to install the Windows XP SP1 USB 1.1 and 2.0 update. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. File Name: WindowsXP-KB822603-x86-ENU.exe -
Download Size: 342 KB
Date Published: 9/8/2003
Version: 822603
Download and more informations

Source: Microsoft and NeoWin

Der Software-Konzern Microsoft wird die Spezifikationen für seine Technologie zur Video-Kompression offen legen. Teile der Windows Media 9-Plattform wurden gestern bereits beim Standardisierungsgremium Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) eingereicht. Dies teilte das Unternehmen am Montag in Redmond im US-Bundesstaat Washington mit. Durch die Standardisierung erhofft sich Microsoft eine größere Verbreitung der Codecs gegenüber konkurrierenden Formaten von Real Networks oder Apple.

http-equiv reports that MS03-032: August 2003 Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer does not work.

eEye Digital Security has discovered a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer that would allow executable code to run automatically upon rendering malicious HTML. This is a flaw in Microsoft's primary contribution to HTML, the Object tag, which is used to embed basically all ActiveX into HTML pages. The parameter that specifies the remote location of data for objects is not checked to validate the nature of the file being loaded, and therefore trojan executables may be run from within a webpage as silently and as easily as Internet Explorer parses image files or any other "safe" HTML content. Microsoft is allready informed, a new patch is not available yet.
Get more informations about the topic by clicking the above shown link.

Microsoft's SpeechServer :-"The Beta Program provides enterprise companies with the opportunity to develop speech applications using the beta version of Microsoft Speech Server. Participants may choose to either work with one of our qualified development partners or to develop speech applications independently." Bink.nu reports "On July 7, Microsoft formally announced the next phase in its long-anticipated rollout of its speech applications software, Microsoft Speech Server. Microsoft began its public rollout with the distribution of the first release of the Microsoft Speech Applications Developers Kit in October 2002. Contd.

Just saw this at neowin. There is NTSC-J, PAL, and SECAM TV Tuner Hotfix for DirectX 9.0b. Neowin:-
"DirectX 9.0b was released on 7/23/03 to address the MIDI security issue identified in bulletin MS03-030. A small number of non-security fixes were also included in the release. One of these fixes caused several TV Tuner capture card/driver combinations using video formats other than NTSC (NTSC-J, PAL, SECAM) to no longer initialize correctly on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003." To download click DirectX9b-KB825116-x86-ENU.exe (Direct Download) For more infor on it warp2... Neowin.net

A big thanks to our bro's at the other batcave Winxpcentral.com for the Info that GamePC have thrown up the first look at Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for AMD64!

Moving away from X86 is bit of a chicken and egg scenario. Consumers don't want the hardware unless the software is there to support it, and software guys won't start developing software until there is available hardware on the market to back them up. Of the companies who have taken on the challenge of moving to 64-bit thus far (Intel, Sun, and Alpha), all have all been limited case scenarios. The companies have developed 64-bit processors specifically for usage in servers and high-end workstations, where the limited hardware and software that is compatible with their processors isn't much of an issue, as they are looking at a very targeted user base.

Thanks to Neowin.net we have the latest build of MSN Messenger version 6.1 Build 114 and while your there you might want to check out their MSN 9 Beta - Early Look!.

Flirt, banter, gossip, or just catch up without saying a word.

On screen conversations that are more instant than e-mail and more discreet than phone calls.

Thanks to Voodoo at Neowin.net for sending over the Info:

The DirectX® Team is pleased to announce the release of DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2003) - RC0.

Microsoft issued another flock of security alerts Wednesday, including notice of a "critical" flaw that affects many of its Office applications. The most serious flaw, in the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) software, could allow an attacker to gain control of a vulnerable PC. VBA is used to develop desktop applications that tie into other Microsoft products. As detailed in Microsoft's security bulletin, a malicious user could create a document with a VBA application that's designed to overflow the buffer--the chunk of memory that's allocated to a program--and then run other code.