Word: ibm
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...conference featured addresses by the CEOs of Oracle, IBM, Sun and America Online, as well as by Microsoft Executive Vice President Steven A. Ballmer '77, and Esther Dyson '71, a leading computer analyst and former Crimson executive...
...last summer. A source close to the project told TIME how, under guarantees of anonymity lest Gates learn of their betrayal, Microsoft's rivals (and some of its partners) led Justice to specific documents and officials at one firm after another. "We knew whom to direct Justice to at IBM, Compaq and Gateway, because we'd all shared beers at computer conferences together," says an informant. "After a long day, we'd sit around and complain about Microsoft...
...fall, Windows NT 5.0, due in spring 1999, would be the logical target of a new and far more sweeping federal suit. Indeed, Bill Gates could find himself fending off Justice in perpetuity, a prospect which in turn raises the fear that the company could come to resemble the IBM that emerged from 13 years of tortuous antitrust wars a wounded giant--drained of the competitive fire that helped spark the computer revolution. Microsoft's enemies have long yearned for the Feds to take on Redmond. The question is whether they'll like what they wished for if they...
...Department's request for an injunction against Win98 and the entire antitrust case on the same day -- September 8. While the DOJ was hoping for an immediate injunction, it's happy with a quick two-for-the-price-of-one trial. "It lays to rest any comparison with the IBM case," said Justice counsel David Boise. Indeed, everyone involved will be glad not to suffer a repeat of Big Blue's 15-year court battle -- except, perhaps, for the trial lawyers...
Kamen came to the world of computers reluctantly at first. She had been writing her nutrition books on a typewriter when her husband came home one day in 1982 with a new IBM PC. The first time Kamen tried writing on it, she split a paragraph on the screen and panicked. "I couldn't figure out how to put it together again. The manuals were written by techies, and they were awful." Within two weeks, she was in love. When Kamen and her husband moved from New York City to Novato, Calif., several years ago, she would allow...