Micro-Star International (MSI) will launch ATI-based graphics cards in April, ending its status of being an Nvidia-exclusive customer, the Chinese-language Commercial Times reported today. MSI’s move is expected to kick off a new wave of competition between ATI Technologies and Nvidia, the paper said. MSI has been one of Nvidia’s major clients and it continues to market Nvidia-based products.

The rising demand for ATI-based graphics cards has spurred MSI to expand its product lines to include ATI cards, the paper said. MSI will showcase its first ATI-based cards at the 2004 CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany from March 18-24, according to the report. MSI’s shipments of graphics cards will increase sharply starting the second quarter after it begins volume shipments of ATI-based cards, it said. The company currently ships about 700,000 graphics cards per month.

News source: DigiTimes

Development on NetXP 3.0 began in February, and NetXP 3.0 is slated to enter beta later this month, most likely by March 20. Alpha builds are already being internally tested. If you wish to sign up to become a beta tester for this project, please complete an application form at http://www.dacris.com/betasignup.aspx. No applications will be accepted after March 31. The final release is scheduled for sometime in April.

There are many changes in NetXP 3.0, compared to previous versions. Here are some of the most notable changes in this version of NetXP:
  • New command bar dock control with full MDI support and Office 2003 behavior.
  • New command bar manager component that can save and load layouts using XML or binary format, or the system registry.
  • New status bar control with consistent Office 2003 style and progress bar panel.
  • New list bar control (a.k.a. Outlook bar) with Office 2003 / Office XP / Windows renderers.
  • New Outlook style "desktop alert" form.
  • New drop-down tree view control.
  • New reusable, inheritable popup form, providing functionality of a popup window.
  • Improved popup menu control: greatly enhanced speed.
  • Improved status bar extender for showing status bar messages from command bar items.
  • Enhanced command bar layout: supports wrapping.
  • Redesigned renderer framework.
  • Added tabbed groups support for docking (for tabbed MDI).
  • Command bar supports embedded controls, including special flat combo box.
  • Ability to change colors: setting color table for Office style renderers.
  • Custom color tables now supported by Task Pane.
  • Configurable padding for command bar items and command bar controls.
  • Auto-hidden dock windows can now be resized when they pop up.


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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by lostspyder on 03 Mar 2004 - 15:14
Who realy cares? its not like MSI is known for anything exceptional
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by Islander on 04 Mar 2004 - 13:46
Are you serious ? I for myself care, and there are surely many more people.

Oh, and there is no company at all known for anything exceptional. I am more than satisfied with my MSI MoBo and GFX-Card.
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