Now with a small hack to the Windows OS, we can enjoy some XP Pro features in Windows XP Home.

German computer magazine C’T claims that by changing only 2 bytes from the file setupreg.hiv in Windows’s XP Home kit, users can get access to certain functions only avalaible in Windows XP Professional, such as Remote Desktop, User management and enhanced security features.
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Minor Hack Turns XP Home To XP Pro Lite

Thursday, June 2, 2005, Google has just launched a beta service called Google Sitemap, which helps supplement its Web crawling technology in order to better index dynamic content and frequently refreshed pages. In other words, It is like pinging the search engine’s crawler at Web pages and tell it when content is updated. So, it might be very helpful for website that frequently update its files.
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Google Sitemap

Microsoft announced on Friday, June 3, 2005, hackers targeted its popular MSN Web site in South Korea to try to steal passwords from visitors. However, the company said it was unclear how many Internet users might have been victimized.

Microsoft said Thursday it cleaned the Web site, www.msn.co.kr, and removed the dangerous software code that unknown hackers had added earlier this week on its news page. More details emerged Friday about the hacking, which targeted subscribers of an online game called “Lineage” that is popular in Asia.
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MSN Site Hacked In South Korea

Microsoft Corp. plans to stop using the word “my” as the default prefix for such folders as “My Documents,” “My Music,” “My Pictures” etc. So, Starting in the next Windows version, folders name will be called simply as “Documents,” “Music,” and so on.

This minor change will surely leave some influence to our daily life.

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With any other product, such a minor change probably wouldn’t even be noticed. But the Microsoft operating system runs on more than 90 percent of the world’s personal computers, and its persistent use of the word has been one of its most conspicuous characteristics — helping to fuel widespread use of the “my” prefix in the technology industry.

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New Windows Media Player (WMP) 11, code-named Polaris, formerly called Aurora, will now be shipping in a public beta this November, coinciding with Longhorn Beta 2.

The final release of Windows Media Player 11 is roughly scheduled for early 2006.

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With Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 set to debut next month, Microsoft has confirmed Windows 2000 will not be adopting the new Web browser. IE7 will require Windows XP Service Pack 2 due to internal security changes that rely on Microsoft’s latest operating system release.

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It should be no surprise that we do not plan on releasing IE7 for Windows 2000. One reason is where we are in the Windows 2000 lifecycle. Another is that some of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2 that is non-trivial to port back to Windows 2000.

Besides, support for both IE 5.01 SP3 and IE 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP3 will expire. Users running IE 5.01 or IE 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 should upgrade to Windows 2000 SP4 in order to continue to receive security updates.

[Source – IEBlog]