As a direct result of this, a brand new style across all presentation for the channel launched on 8 December 2003 at 09: 00.

On 25 April 2003 Microsoft launched Windows Server 2003, a notable update to Windows 2000 Server encompassing many new security features, a new " Manage Your Server " wizard that simplifies configuring a machine for specific roles, and improved performance.

* 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

The service started as a test in November 2002 before it was launched in October 2003 and it's one of the most technologically advanced Internet services in the African continent.

In 2003 the UN launched the Baker Plan, allowing Moroccan settlers the vote and instituting a five-year Sahrawi autonomous rule under Moroccan sovereignty before the referendum.

In 2003, Milken launched a Washington, D. C .- based think tank called FasterCures, which seeks greater efficiency in researching all serious diseases.

Norway ( ratified the convention in 1996 ), Russia ( ratified in 1997 ), Canada ( ratified in 2003 ) and Denmark ( ratified in 2004 ) have all launched projects to base claims that certain areas of Arctic continental shelves should be subject to their sole sovereign exploitation.

In 2003, Apple launched both the largest-screen laptop in the world and Apple's smallest full-featured notebook computer.

In 2002, as the ratings continued to fall for Scottish serial High Road ( formerly Take The High Road ), BBC Scotland launched River City, which proved popular and effectively replaced High Road when it was cancelled in 2003.

* 2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.

First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107.

Oman ’ s first free newspaper was launched in March 2003 and has now gone on to gather what is believed to be the largest readership for any publication in Oman.

This type of virtual world was later to be realized as Second Life, which was launched in 2003.

On 20 March 2003 the Navy SEALs launched what is the largest single SEAL operation in history from US Naval vessels, Ras al-Qulayah Naval Base and Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait as part of a mixed force of US Navy SEALs, Polish GROM and British Royal Marines.

Spain ’ s Telefonica was the first operator to launch a hybrid broadcast and broadband TV service in 2003 with its Imagineo DTT / IPTV offering, while Polish satellite operator ' n ' was the first to offer its subscribers a Three-way hybrid ( or Tri-brid ) broadcast and broadband TV service, which launched in 2009

A website entitled The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator, launched on July 1, 2003, contained a Java applet that simulates a large population of monkeys typing randomly, with the stated intention of seeing how long it takes the virtual monkeys to produce a complete Shakespearean play from beginning to end.

It initially ran as a temporary installation from March 11 to April 14, 2002, and was launched again in 2003 to mark the second anniversary of the attack.

The skepdic. com site was launched in 1994 and the book was published in 2003 with nearly 400 entries.

Details on the practice of scam baiting, and ideas, are chronicled on a website, 419eater. com, launched in 2003 by Michael Berry.

In 2003 Durie designed and launched a range of outdoor furniture and gardening products under the brand name Patio by Jamie DuriePatio by Jamie Durie.

On July 1, 2003, Carnegie Mellon launched Insp! re Innovation, a $ 1 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign.

An online version of Trivial Pursuit was launched in September, 2003.

A Military Programation Law ( Lei de Programação Militar ) was launched in 2002 to start the complete modernization of the Armed Forces ; considerable reequipment of the military started in 2003, with Defense Minister Paulo Portas, who managed to acquire new helicopters ( Army and Air Force ), submarines, IFV ( Army and Navy ), frigates and naval patrol boats.

Descendants of the worms aboard Columbia in 2003 were launched into space on Endeavour for the STS-134 mission.

In 2003, the agenda shifted heavily towards local democratic reforms, opposition to the succession of Gamal Mubarak as president, and rejection of violence by state security forces.

In 20 April 2003, chancellor Schröder announced massive labor market reforms, called Agenda 2010, that cut in unemployment benefits.

Since 2003 Rose Revolution, new Government of Georgia implemented broad and comprehensive reforms, that touched every aspect of the country ’ s life.

Since 2003, following the death in custody of a prisoner, Naseem, the Maldives experienced several anti-government demonstrations calling for political reforms, more freedoms and, and end to torture and oppression.

Tough government reforms and steady yearly growth in the region of 4 – 5 % from 2000 to 2007, including 4. 9 % year-on-year growth in 2003 – 2007 the Moroccan economy is much more robust than just a few years ago.

A series of internationally funded reforms since late 2003 have sought to reduce the power of the army and to subordinate it to the civilian authorities. Moves have been in progress in recent years, with foreign assistance, to improve the capabilities of the armed forces and security forces, and to enhance national security.

Kekkonen's authoritarian behavior during his presidential term was one of the main reasons for the reforms of the Finnish Constitution in 1984 – 2003.

The President was both head of state and, following constitutional reforms in 2003, head of government.

Following the end of the Wars and the constitutional reforms of 2003 by which the state was renamed " Serbia and Montenegro ", the military accordingly changed its name to " Military of Serbia and Montenegro ".

In the presidency of Kufuor saw several social reforms, such as the reform in the system of National Health Insurance of Ghana in 2003.

Consolidation occurred following reforms, lowering the number of private banks in Bolivia from 14 in 1995 to nine in 2003.

Despite failing to qualify for the Champions League, Rosenborg had enjoyed another great season and it looked like Hareide's beginning reforms were paying off, but 2003 turned out to be his one and only season at the club as he accepted an offer to lead the Norwegian national team in December of that year.

With Hareide's unexpected departure at the end of 2003 the club failed to properly execute the reforms he had begun.

In late 2002 and 2003 the government pushed economic reforms, and the country's GDP growth accelerated at record levels, exceeding 6 – 7 %.

In the most recent book, Rystads biography from 2003, the king is again mainly characterized as a strong-willed shaper of Sweden through economical reforms and an achievement of financial and military stability and strength.

Since the 2003 reforms subsidies have been linked to the size of farms, so farmers get same for a hectare of land regardless of how much land he owns.

Elena Kagan sought to reverse many of the persistent stereotypes about the school when she assumed its deanship in 2003, promising reforms.

A limited, indirect form of local initiative was added to the French Constitution ( article 72-1, référendum d ' initiative locale ) on 28 March 2003 as part of decentralization reforms.

The democratisation was later reversed with the 2003 university reforms.

The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union has often been accused of dumping though significant reforms were made as part of the Agreement on Agriculture at the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations in 1992 and in subsequent incremental reforms, notably the Luxembourg Agreement in 2003.

In a book edited with Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski in 2003, Williamson laid out an expanded reform agenda, emphasizing crisis-proofing of economies, " second-generation " reforms, and policies addressing inequality and social issues ( Kuczynski and Williamson, 2003 ).

In a book edited with Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in 2003, John Williamson laid out an expanded reform agenda, emphasizing crisis-proofing of economies, " second-generation " reforms, and policies addressing inequality and social issues.