Word: aol
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What's worse for a software company than being told it broke the law? Only this: Being told it makes an inferior product. Scarcely a day after Judge Jackson's ruling of law last week, AOL and Gateway unveiled a trio of low-cost Internet-access devices that pointedly excluded Microsoft from their party. The devices--a countertop, a desktop and a wireless Web appliance--use upstart Linux, rather than Microsoft's Windows, as their operating system. Linux, according to AOL and Gateway execs, beat Windows to the punch by being faster and more reliable. Ouch...
Chalk it up to longstanding Microsoft-AOL rivalry if you will. But "netpliances" like the new Gateways are a portent of precisely the kind of products that could release--faster than any judge--Redmond's iron grip on the software industry. By 2004, analysts expect this kind of cheap-and-easy surfing gadget to outsell PCs. In this market, the most unobtrusive operating system wins, and the feature-heavy heft that won the desktop wars for Microsoft becomes a liability. "Most of these devices have no need for a Windows experience," says Dan Kuznetsky, a system-software analyst at technology...
...message that we needed to improve our software," says Pocket PC group manager Phil Holden. His new device promises better handwriting recognition than the Palm, easier-to-read text, an MP3 player, a voice recorder, a fully functional Web browser and instant access to e-mail, even for AOL users. Down the line, an experimental device called MiPad has made some promising breakthroughs in voice recognition. PDAs you talk to? Even the CEO might be able to handle that...
JOEL KLEIN Antitrust czar wins another round against Microsoft. Just keep yer paws off AOL...
...based service is that you can log on from any PC with Net access and check your mail from various accounts. But the disadvantage is that it's slower, and many Web-based free e-mail services won't be able to check messages in your AOL e-mail account. The other type of free service is called a Post Office Protocol (POP3) account, and it runs on dedicated e-mail software like the kind you usually get when you subscribe for Internet service. POP3 accounts commonly let you store more messages than Web-based e-mail and usually come...