10/29/1999: Service Pack 6 for Windows NT 4.0

Microsoft has just presented in his web site the version 6 of the acquaintance Service Pack for Windows NT 4.0, who corrects diverse errors and updates parts of this operating system.
In this occasion more than 200 errors of all kinds are corrected, from questions related to the year 2000 to safety problems, strange behaviors on having installed or desinstalar other programs as Internet Explorer, problems of network or updates of bookstores and controlers of devices.
The update is available in versions with encriptación of 40 ó 128 bits (the North American laws limit the exportation of the algorithms of powerful encriptación) and at present only in English, although his translation to numerous languages is foreseeable, between them Spanish.

10/28/1999: New Pentium III Coppermine suffer from scarcity and debts

Scarcely a pair of days after the official throwing (October 25) of the new generation of microprocessors Pentium III, based on the design Coppermine, Intel has turned out to be forced to recognize diverse technical problems that will delay the arrival of these mikes to the final market.
New Pentium III 500E and 550E in format PGA370 (the most accessible economically) would have turned out to be delayed until December by technical problems with the ratification of the spendthrift - fan; Pentium III for portable would not be available in quantity till the end of December or enclosed January; and those of format Slot1, the least affected, will appear in very limited quantities, especially those of major speed.
These problems of scarcity and debts join the already known ones between the memory RDRAM and the chipset i820, that provoked the postponement of this one up to not certain date. According to several analysts, the reason of all these problems would be in the excessive pressure in the one that submitted Intel sees seen by AMD, who has the Athlon (considered by many like the most rapid mike for PC) for already three months.