“Windows 2000 is a case in point. Tif workshops have given members a
chance to discuss their concerns, and they are not happy with their
experience so far. Roberts cites users spending up to £25m on upgrades,
only to find that features are missing, bugs exist in key components and
high levels of complexity slow down implementations to an unrealistic
degree. He said that when users pointed these things out to Microsoft they
were told that they would be resolved in the next version, Windows
XP/2002.” More at ComputerWeekly.

Is Mozilla 0.9.2 coming soon? MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: June brings minor, yet somewhat chaotic changes to the Mozilla development Roadmap and Milestone Plan . One Mozilla Organization document shows the Mozilla Milestone 0.9.2 release set for June 31 (sic), 2001. Yet another Mozilla Organization document shows Mozilla 0.9.2 release set for June 25, 2001. Please see Tables 1 and 2.

Although the Mozilla Organization´s Mozilla Development Roadmap document shows that Mozilla 0.9.2 will be released on 25 June 2001, it is doubtful that Mozilla 0.9.2 will be released then — unless the Mozilla developers intend to release a very buggy milestone.
At publication time, there are some 295 bugs targeted to Mozilla 0.9.2. Additionally there are some 998 bugs targeted to Milestone 0.9.3 and 1,541 bugs targeted to Mozilla 1.0. That´s a total of 2,836 bugs targeted to these three releases.

CNET: “As if anyone needed further evidence that the PC industry is on the skids, consider that it
can’t even command its own trade show anymore.

The long-running PC Expo program is now TechX NY, opening Tuesday in New York.”

PRNewsWire: “Wasabi Systems today announced the completion of a preliminary
port of NetBSD to AMD’s 64-bit x86-64 architecture. The port has been tested
on Virtutech’s VirtuHammer x86-64 simulation tool.”

Patrick Mullen writes: “The Duke of URL has just posted an editorial on the recent widespread perception that Linux is dead. Want to know how to further the Linux cause? Do you wonder if consumers are actually interested in Linux? The article answers all this and more.”

“Panelists included noted open-source licensing guru and senior global strategist for OpenSource at
Hewlett-Packard Bruce Perens, Synopsys vice president of strategic market development Rich Goldman, and
Open SystemC chairman and Cadence Design Systems vice president of business operations Stan Krolikoski
all outlined how open-sourcing can be effective in creating viable and fair standards that address the
interoperability problem.

Perens urged industry to participate in and only tolerate true open-source efforts. Doing so, said Parens,
allows several sources to participate in quickly creating standards that will be more agreeable to all parties
and more responsive as needs change.” More at EETimes.

“Since I’d planned to upgrade this particular to Win Me anyway, I nuked the real PC drive’s
contents, performed a clean install of Win Me, and then installed VPC again. I then downloaded
the Mandrake 8.0 ISO images, mounted the images directly in VPC–something that I cannot do
in the current version of VPC for Mac–and installed the OS. Just like with OpenBSD 2.9,
nothing untoward happened, the install completed successfully, and the Linux “guest” OS
appears happy in its new home.” More at ZDNET.

“One of the most frequent questions from our clients is: When will Linux
– and, by implication, all open-source software (OSS) – be ready for
mission-critical production environments? Linux is receiving major
coverage from the trade press, nearly all favorable, and is being
strongly, and proactively, marketed by vendors. The debate about the
merits of OSS is now reaching a feverish pitch, with Microsoft defending
the commercial software model and arguing that intellectual property
rights will be severely threatened by the licensing practices advocated
by the Linux community. The advocates of OSS have, in return, hurled
abuse at Microsoft, claiming that its practices have been harmful and
damaging to the progress of IT and will no longer work in the new era of
open, Internet-based infrastructures. Users, developers and software
vendors are confused by the claims and counter-claims.” More from The Gartner Group.

ZDNET: “Compaq Computer Corp. touted its commitment to Linux
this week and expressed some irritation that rival IBM has
been portrayed as the leading proponent of the
open-source operating system.

Compaq, which sells more Linux-based servers than any
other computer maker worldwide, unveiled several
programs Monday targeting enterprise users of the OS.”

The Register: “The discovery came a couple of days ago when one poster uncovered a little
adjustment hole at the back of the console which, when tweaked, seemed to act as
a contrast control. IGN then documented the tweak for its readers, which seemed
like a fair thing to do.

But in looking at it now in retrospect, they’re probably kicking themselves for not
double and triple-checking with Nintendo on the subject, because as revealed to
the American gaming news service today, the “contrast control” is actually a bit
more sinister.”