Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they may not get what they want. Jackson's vaguely phrased order merely told Microsoft to let PC makers remove Explorer's visible manifestation--that big blue e--from their desktops, not to erase all traces of Internet-related code from Windows, which by now may be impossible. Microsoft knew this and could have just asked Jackson to clarify his order...
...that is not Bill Gates' style. Better, he figured, to take Jackson at his sloppy word, appeal his order and let the results illustrate the court's ignorance. "It seemed absolutely clear to you," Jackson asked Microsoft V.P. David Cole in court, "that I entered an order that required that you distribute a product that would not work. That's what you're telling me?" Cole's stone-faced reply: "In plain English...
...inside the Beltway. For while Gates' semantic hairsplitting may have been technically accurate, in p.r. terms it was painfully misguided. The media gasped at Microsoft's brinkmanship, and that $1 million-a-day fine Klein asked for last fall now loomed like a juicy apple ripe for Jackson's picking...
...that is, Klein hasn't stopped them first. The antitrust chief's larger investigation remains active and aggressive; a Justice source confirms that wider anti-Microsoft action under the Sherman Act, if it comes, will probably arrive before the new operating system does. First Jackson will hear from "special master" Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard law professor whose court-ordered study of Microsoft's business practices is due in May. Around the same time, of course, Microsoft's appeal (which includes a request to have Lessig removed from the case) reaches court, and Win98 hits software shelves near...
DIED. CARL PERKINS, 65, Big Daddy of rockabilly; after a series of strokes; in Jackson, Tenn. Blue Suede Shoes, his anthem to teenage vanity nearly became his requiem when, as he was en route to a key national-TV performance in 1956, a car crash hobbled him and his career. Drinking binges followed, but so did songs--Honey Don't, Matchbox--that helped teach the Beatles rock 'n' roll...