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...such marketplace realities have meant little to Klein and the state attorneys general, whose relations with one another have been contentious from the get-go. Some states first sought to charge that Microsoft's Office suite of programs--which include such software mainstays as Word, Excel and PowerPoint--has a monopoly of its own. But by April 1, a Saturday, all the trustbusters' positions were beginning to converge. That's when mediation talks between Microsoft and the prosecutors broke down, a development Klein learned about while working on the weekend in his third-floor office at Justice. That day, Klein...
...ensure that he brings in the buzz that drives the biz, Arnault hires edgy, critically acclaimed young designers who never made a centime of profit when they ran their own houses but who excel at engaging, exciting and infuriating the fashion press. Arnault points to John Galliano's spring collections for Dior this year as typical of what he wants from his designers. "His ideas are not meant to be worn," Arnault says of the avant-gardish collection of bag-lady-style ball gowns, "but the ideas descend down to pret-a-porter and to everything in the line...
According to the release, 12 courses have already been developed. Topics include Photoshop, website management and design, Windows 98 and associated Microsoft programs, Excel and Networking...
Where does the whiz kid who's not cut out to manage people fit into this picture? Carol Rozwell, research director of the GartnerGroup E-Business Intelligence Services, suggests that companies create positions such as chief technology officer to allow the "lone wolf" to excel...
...tapping away at another dreary spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. By accident, you hit a secret combination of keys. Phfft!--the spreadsheet is gone, and you're flying over a landscape of rolling green hills, guided only by your mouse. Find another hidden combo, and--this gets curiouser and curiouser--you're crossing a zigzagging platform with fiery death on either side. Admit it. That's a whole lot more interesting than accounts payable...