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Break the code. Right now, some non-Microsoft programmers say they are disadvantaged in writing applications that work on Windows because they don't have sufficient access to crucial Microsoft codes that mate the applications to the Windows software. As a result, they say, Microsoft has a big edge in selling lucrative word-processing, finance and other software to users of Windows, which runs more than 90% of the world's personal computers. The court could supervise the sharing of Microsoft's codes--known in techspeak as application-program interfaces, or APIs--and thereby ensure a level playing field...
...personal computer cost Big Blue its overwhelming dominance. Will Java do the same to Big Bill? The jury's still out on that one, although the release of Java 1.2 this week might help silence some critics of Java software. "We've never had this level of confidence in code," says Sick. "It's not where it needs to be yet, but it's getting there faster than anything has before." And if Microsoft opts to join the Java team with pure intentions, success could come more speedily than ever...
...stage, she referred to herself once as Caryn, the name her mother calls her in Book. Whoopi spoke of being influenced by her mother, Emma, as well as by Anne Frank. It was their advice that became part of her spirituality and code of life. Advocating dialogue, because of the understanding it can bring, she enjoys searching for the truth and learning about the experiences of other people's lives...
...regrettably brief concert ended with an encore cover of Ozzy Osbourne's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" replete with wailing guitars and a three minute code of distorted power chords. The fans seemed dazed, but not unimpressed. Even those who came for the kitsch stayed for the clamor. This wasn't the Cardigans of "Lovefool," but the confidence of this heavier aesthetic was winning. Johansson proclaimed, "People may think we are trying to get more commercial, but we don't make music for a special kind of audience. We make music for ourselves, and we wanted this sound. Lots of violence." Loud...
From the lack of a set schedule or dress code to company trips to Hawaii and Las Vegas, Trilogy defines itself as an exception to the power-suit, power-lunch rule...