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...home run, he jogs around the bases with his head down, and he takes a curtain call only when the fans won't let up. He has spent almost his entire pro career working for tactician-manager Tony LaRussa (who makes decisions based on numbers crunched in his dugout Macintosh Powerbook), but McGwire doesn't need the coach's signs. His job is hit rock with stick. He is more elemental than even Ruth or Cobb. He is refusing, for now, to sit down with most media, even charming, likable media who dressed really nicely to meet him last week...
...time to retire my old and trusty Macintosh. Blubbering like a boy about to put the family dog to sleep, I lugged the thing into my daughters' room and said goodbye. "You're going to be happier here, feller," I snuffled, patting it on the monitor. And then I remembered: thousands of my e-mail messages were on that machine! My kids might inadvertently delete them, or worse, read them! A quick check determined that my private correspondence weighed in at 80 megabytes. The usual high-density floppy discs, standard 1.44-MB diskettes, were useless--it would take...
...that dreaded time in gadgetry again: you're going to have to choose between competing technologies. Did you bet Beta or VHS? Did you do Windows or bite into Macintosh? What call did you make on cellular vs. PCS phones? The next coin toss is in photography, in which a new line of digital cameras that store pictures on memory chips rather than film is fighting it out with Advanced Photo System models, an innovative take on traditional 35-mm film...
That Microsoft, Inc., is an important force in high tech today is a given. About 90 percent of all personal computers run some version of Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Word and Office are the number one word processor and office software suite respectively on both Windows and Macintosh PC's. Novell NetWare, long the dominant product for PC-based networks, is slipping to second place behind Microsoft's NT Server, and the Redmond, Wash., software giant has made inroads into markets previously ruled by database giant Oracle and the web browser king Netscape...
...course we at Harvard still have our freedom of speech and we're not quite Microsoft U. yet. The percentage of Macintosh users here is higher than in the business world, and the computer labs have plenty of Macs plus some Unix workstations. Most campus machines seem to run Netscape Navigator instead of Internet Explorer, and most courses take pains to make sure any required software or web-distributed documents can be run or read on both Windows and Mac machines...