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...even those as potent as Windows. But Microsoft crossed the line, Judge Jackson held, when it used Windows in a "predatory" way to protect its monopoly and build new ones. A key Microsoft tactic: adding features to Windows. Microsoft originally developed its Explorer Web browser as a separate consumer item, but then it decided to include--or bundle--the browser in Windows in 1995. The upshot was that Windows users got a free browser when they bought their PC's--making it awfully hard for Netscape to persuade them to buy its competing program...
...Random music news item of the week: a weekly paper in Australia got into trouble for excoriating Natalie Imbruglia for promoting her supposed lesbian affair, saying "Not only does no one criticize some stars for their lesbian relationships but now it's a form of advertising." As the paper accurately noted, Imbruglia is dating the lead singer of Aussie band silverchair. Problem is, the lead singer of silverchair is Daniel Johns, who at last check was certifiably male...
...purchases was only a circle on a new CEO's org chart. His goal, Ping explained, was "to consolidate the supplier base" and thereby "leverage spending." In English, this meant that where once each of the company's manufacturing plants had different local suppliers, they would now buy every item in larger volumes at lower prices from one or two national suppliers. "This seems to be the trend nowadays," Ping told me. "In the beginning, they hired some consultants to do a diagnostic and found out there was a saving potential. Then the management set a target of $53 million...
...percent of first-year rooms contained at least one item that was confiscated, said Kathleen A. Bray, Manager of Freshman Dormitories...
...council passed by a vote of 34-2 a bill sponsored by Driskell and Burton that allocates $400 to carry out the top item on the duo's campaign platform: a comprehensive poll of students in order to diagnose important concerns...