This list of answers to frequently asked questions is intended to cut through the clutter and make sense of some of the arcane legal aspects of the trial

Lists Microsoft-sponsored or Microsoft-related conferences taking place between February 2000 and April 2000

Reed Elsevier--a multinational publisher of scientific, professional, and business information--claims Microsoft's Expedia travel service misused its hotel directory information and interfered with its business relationships

In anticipation of economic recovery and dramatic growth in computer and network use in Asia, Microsoft expanded telecommunication investments in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

IE 5.01, a minor upgrade that rolls up bug fixes and improves security, is shipping; IE 5.5, currently in public beta, adds a couple of features (such as print preview) and supports several new Web content formats

This release is an important step in Microsoft's BizTalk initiative, which is defining communication protocols for business-to-business e-commerce that Microsoft will support in its server products

The most important part of this new release is the beta Windows Media Device Manager (WMDM), which enables users to download audio to portable players while retaining copyright protection on the material

A new partner program offers Web site usage analysis tools based on SQL Server 7.0's On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) Services to selected solution providers

The promotions are small, but they illustrate Microsoft's larger plan to boost its Windows CE-based Palm-size PC against the popular systems based on the Palm operating system