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...rewire the charge that a $40 million party was too gaudy for wartime, the night before the Inauguration was devoted to a salute to soldiers and service, although that gala was followed by the Texas Black Tie & Boots Ball, complete with live armadillos and Bevo--the University of Texas' longhorn steer--20,000 yellow roses and cowboy boots dipped in silver as centerpieces. On Inaugural Night, President and Mrs. Bush waltzed through nine balls in record time, belying their song, I Could Have Danced All Night, before heading back to the White House by 10:03 --1 1/2 hours ahead...
Though the company is trying to shed its arrogant, customer-unfriendly image by providing road maps to new software releases, its biggest product of all isn't playing along. The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, has been delayed so much that it has acquired the nickname Long Wait. Gates recently warned that we would have to cool our heels until 2006 before we would see it--five years after the release of Windows XP--and even that date isn't certain. "We'll ship it when it's ready," says Neil Charney, director of product management for Windows...
...bigger problem for Microsoft is that fully 65% of Windows users have not yet upgraded to XP. Why should they, when there's another new version taking shape? As Gates is fond of saying, "Our biggest competitor is our installed base." Now the Longhorn team has been told to scale back its ambitious plans for the new operating system in order to make sure it will work with the average...
...traffic is hazardous materials. We have two major railroads. Also, Wyoming has major mining, major electrical generating plants and coal-bed methane. Any one of those becomes a vulnerability for a terrorist." A former FBI agent, Moore works in an office decorated with a sketch of a longhorn sheep and a picture of the burning Twin Towers with the phrase CONSTANT VIGILANCE. When I ask him how he would prioritize limited federal money, he declines to answer. "We don't have crystal balls. We just believe that we're as important as anyone else...
...Expect A Manual A pirated version of Microsoft's latest operating system went on sale in Malaysia , two years before its planned release. Copies of the software - codenamed Longhorn - are going for just...