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...Microsoft camp insists consumers will benefit for the opposite reason--because the ruling frees Microsoft, and hence the rest of the technology industry, to innovate and improve products without government meddling. The company has several new initiatives teed up, including Passport, a kind of Web-shopping manager, and Hailstorm, a subscription-based e-mail-alert Web service. One of Microsoft's main offenses in the antitrust case, the company points out, was giving away the Internet Explorer with Windows. "There weren't a lot of complaints from customers that they were getting a browser for free," says Jonathan Zuck, executive...
...critical to us all that AOL keep the legal pressure on Microsoft. Redmond is ruthless. Anyone who thinks that what Microsoft did to Netscape won't happen again hasn't been paying attention. Microsoft's Messenger will play a critical role in a suite of personalized consumer services called HailStorm that people will want to use in Windows XP. That's bad news for AOL, which will continue its fight. And good news...
...matter how bad your day was, chances are it was better than Robert Hanssen?s. The former FBI counterintelligence officer was indicted in Washington, D.C. Wednesday; government prosecutors pummeled him with a hailstorm of espionage charges, including several new, especially serious accusations concerning nuclear-defense secrets...
...Before the hailstorm of indignant criticism begins, we ask that you note the following caveat: We did not choose Williams as person of the week to glorify his murderous rage or to in any way minimize the damage he has inflicted on his suburban community. We chose this 15-year-old because he has resurrected our darkest, post-Columbine fears, and reignited innumerable stalled debates over gun control, parental responsibility and school safety measures...
...Thunder. I am wearing a short pink tank top. The editor of the local newspaper of Kibbutz Bar Am, where I was born, calls up and asks to interview me about the situation. Oh, boy, the situation. How I like to talk about the situation. There is a terrible hailstorm, and I am screaming on the telephone. I can't hear myself. I can't see anything. About three months ago, when Barak was at Camp David, we thought we were winning. That our struggle for peace was on the verge of success. That there is a chance, a future...