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...ROMs bearing the all-important "gold code" for Win 98 were due to be delivered to the likes of Dell, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard this Friday. Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray said the fact it had been delayed "will not have any impact on the commercial launch date" for the top operating system upgrade, still set for June 25. What Reno et al would like before then is an agreement to let manufacturers remove the Internet Explorer icon, among others, from the Win 98 desktop. She shouldn't hold her breath. Given Microsoft's penchant for brinksmanship, that could take some...
When members of the audience questioned the availability of old episodes, Green took the opportunity to announce that CTW and Nickelodeon have entered into a partnership to launch "Noggin," a digital children's entertainment network that will show, among other things, old Sesame Street shows. The announcement was quickly followed by an audience request for an address to which interested job-seekers could send resumes...
...decided. Clearly, though, IE 4 is an integral part of Win 98, which lets you browse your own hard drive the same way you would the Web. For the record: yes, you can install Netscape Navigator on Win 98 machines, and even run IE and Navigator simultaneously. But IE launches much faster than Navigator, and so far at least, Microsoft won't let PC makers replace the Explorer icon with Navigator's. Gates' critics call this his typical recalcitrance and hope Justice or the states scuttle the Win 98 launch...
...payoff can be awesome: 79 million boomers have begun to turn 50 at the rate of one every eight seconds or so. That's why this $300 billion industry is the most profitable segment of the FORTUNE 500. Pfizer's impotence pill, Viagra, already the hottest new drug launch ever, could reach $2 billion in sales by the year 2000. Delirious investors pushed Pfizer's stock from about $45 a share a year ago to $118.25 last week...
SLEEP ALL NIGHT The ability to sleep soundly decreases with age. Sonata, which American Home Product's pharmaceutical unit Wyeth-Ayerst hopes to launch next year, is designed to induce sleep without producing a groggy feeling the next morning. "There is a tremendous issue in sleep disturbance," says consultant Coleman. "So when we get a product that people have utter confidence in, that will be a gold mine for someone...