Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skulduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM. And Compaq. And Apple...
...fact is, United States v. Microsoft does have an ideology behind it. At some level, it's a return to the good old days of trust busting, something scarcely seen in the U.S. since the government's case against IBM sputtered out in the early 1980s. Emboldened by Judge Jackson's ruling, the Antitrust Division could soon be prowling for more high-profile, high-tech targets...
...ignorant of all but a few Canadian schools, like McGill. Fortunately, those who count--graduate-admissions deans and corporate recruiters--know better. A Canadian university degree is welcome at such top U.S. graduate schools as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Chicago and M.I.T. Major U.S. corporations such as IBM, Ford Motor and Arthur Andersen increasingly recruit at Canadian schools. Graduates of the University of Waterloo, with its world-class math and computer-science programs, are recruited by Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Film- production students at Concordia University in Montreal are often hired before graduation...
...what? Do you lie there inert, screaming "Where's the rest of my stock?" Nah. In the trenches of capitalism where I toil, one of these high-explosive blow-ups hits me monthly, obliterating any hope of a quick profit, or perhaps producing a staggering unrealized loss. IBM, Xerox, Unisys and Lexmark have all detonated recently. First, take heart. You aren't the only one dumb enough to bet on a great company during a period of unsettling sales growth and a Fed turned hostile to higher stock prices. If you haven't taken a hit in your personal portfolio...
...former IBM engineer named Phil Adams who actually pinned down the problem and decided to take legal action. According to Adams, the problem - which resides in the chip's "microcode," the instructions that are actually burned into the chip itself - is especially persnickety because it can manifest itself in a variety of ways, randomly deleting or corrupting information on otherwise healthy disks. Once Adams was sure he knew what he was dealing with, he took it to a Texas law firm, which filed the suit. MORE...