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...lowered prices to drive competitors out of business and then raised them to gouge consumers. "Microsoft cut prices when it didn't have to," says Jesse Berst, publisher of the industry newsletter Windows Watcher. "It's something that Apple could have done if they'd had the courage, and IBM...
...that makes it easier for users to move information from one Windows application to another-to shuttle an expense report from a spreadsheet to a word-processing document, for example. Apple is developing a competing system, called OpenDoc, that is supposed to run equally well on Windows, Mac and IBM's OS/2. But if a programmer uses OpenDoc instead of ole, he runs the risk that Microsoft will at some future point make a subtle change in Windows that would render his programs useless. "Everything Microsoft is building is linked to ole," says Jerry Michalski, editor of the newsletter Release...
...make my proposal selflessly, objectively, recognizing that from a programming standpoint, Windows isn't exactly poetry. It's counterintuitive and clunky, which is peculiar after all these years. Microsoft, you'll recall, came into being when Gates licensed to IBM his Disk Operating System, or DOS, which was supposed to make PCs easier to use. Later, Windows was supposed to make DOS easier to use. And a few months ago, Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you can look forward to reading -- I swear...
This is wonderful news -- at least the company is moving in the proper direction-and if it's true, maybe I'll start using the IBM clone that sits on my desk, stupid as a lawn jockey. But this isn't about me. This is about what's good for the entire digital world. And what's good for the digital world has nothing to do with smart technology versus stupid technology. It has to do with who's biggest and most likely to put all the pieces together. More important, it has to do with someone finally being responsible...
...togain back lost ground in the high-tech world, IBM announced a $3.3 billion hostile takeover bid for Lotus Development Corp., maker of the popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet and other software. "Together, our skills match in a way that is breathtaking," IBM's chairman and CEO Louis Gerstner told a news conference. (Lotus, the third-largest PC software company after Microsoft and Novell, rejected IBM's buyout suggestions during five months of private talks, but today said it would consider the $60 per share cash offer, which amounts to twice its market value.)TIME senior technology editor Philip...