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Tens of thousands of homeless children haunt the alleys and boulevards of Brazil's major cities. "The typical menino de rua," says Roberto Jose dos Santos, who runs the Sao Martinho shelter, "is black or mulatto with lots of brothers and sisters. There is an alcoholic mother or stepfather. He, and increasingly she, has grown up in a climate of violence in a suburban slum. No one is concerned about keeping him in school. There is no love or affection at home, and so he leaves...
Despite his frail frame, Gates has plenty of muscle. The company he co- founded, Microsoft, accounts for nearly 40% of the PC software industry's revenues of $8 billion and commands 90% of the crucial market for system- control software. Microsoft's disk operating system, known as MS-DOS, is now installed on about 60 million IBM-compatible personal computers, or 75% of all the PCs in the world. Competitors claim Microsoft abuses its market power, but the company was cleared of all antitrust charges in a Federal Trade Commission probe in February. Last week a federal judge dismissed Apple...
...Microsoft's office-automation strategy, however, is the operating system known as Windows, the follow-on program to DOS. Introduced in 1985, Windows makes PCs easier to use by replacing the arcane written commands of DOS with friendly pictorial instructions, called icons. Microsoft has sold more than 25 million copies of Windows, which ranks second only to DOS in total sales. Last month the company launched Windows NT, a program designed to allow office computers to be linked together...
...should you upgrade? The answer is a qualified yes if you are still using a DOS version lower than five on a 386-class systems DOS & Will likely make available to you more system resources and make your life with DOS just a little bit easier...
...other hand, if you already have DOS 5, the new version is probably not worth the $50 price tag. Get a keg for this weekend instead, and celebrate the end of classes...