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Microsoft Office 2000 Beta 1 Ships to 20,000 Customers, Providing Tools To Make the Web Work for Users. Microsoft Corp. today announced the shipment of Office 2000 beta 1 to a record 20,000 customers and solution providers, providing an early opportunity for evaluation of the next version of the world's best-selling productivity suite.
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ServiceWare Inc. announced that they will engage in a unique knowledge exchange program to provide customers of Microsoft® products with increased accessibility to technical information and problem-solving techniques

Unwanted Data Issue Bug in Microsoft's Office 98 for the Macintosh, there is the Patch.

Windows 98 Release scheduled for June 25, 1998.

Microsoft provides an online Download Wizard for updating your used Windows 95/98/?NT? operating system. Internet Explorer 4.01 or above is required for that service.

RegClean is now available in version 4.1a (12/31/97).
RegClean analyzes Windows Registry keys stored in a common location in the Windows Registry. It finds keys that contain erroneous values, and after recording those entries in the Undo.Reg file, it removes them from the Windows Registry.

Note that after installing Internet Explorer 4.0, installation or reinstallation of Windows 95 Service Pack 1 is not recommended.

Chat Rooms also to Microsoft Software.

Visiting of Microsoft Support Web-Sites needs JavaScript enabled Web browser for subscribing (Cookies) now.

If you use Netscape Communicator 4.0 at present, and you are visiting Microsoft's Web-Sites and the browser will hang, Stop browsing and Reload again.

If you have installed SR-1 Patch or Patch Update of Microsoft Office 97, and you are in trouble to use Office 97 or to install additional Office 97 components, there are the instructions to completly remove SR-1 Patch and Patch Update.

If you'll install SQL-Server on Windows NT Server, close all network services before begin with install process.

European Web Pages of Microsoft Corporation have same Internet addresses (URLs) but plus the letters eu, example: http://www.eu.microsoft.com.

Asian Web Pages of Microsoft Corporation have same Internet addresses (URLs) but plus the letters asia, example: http://www.asia.microsoft.com.

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