Word: macintoshes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Message to the Macintosh faithful: cuddle up with your PowerBook and see the story that inspired the ad: 1984. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton and a ravishing (and oft-ravished) Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, it's surely what was on Bill Gates' mind when he pulled that Wizard of OS routine at MacWorld, looming disembodied over the crowd while Steve Jobs said the words: Microsoft is our ally. Microsoft has always been our ally. Apple is at war with Netscape. Apple has always been at war with Netscape. The utterance may have drawn a few boos from the crowd...
BOSTON: MacWorld bomb shell? Steve Jobs, Apple's not-chairman, mentioned in the closer on his address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. (sound of the Macintosh faithful fainting...) What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill...
...without Jobs and they will have to. The new boss will have to be someone who can not only hold down the costs and inspire the troops, but also be a super salesman for the product." Who that boss would be is anyone's guess, but possible candidates include Macintosh Power Computing CEO Steve Kahng and onetime IBM and Perot Systems executive James Cannavino. Jobs has always been more of a creator than a manager, and he's happy in his current incarnation as head of the animation company Pixar. Since he genuinely wants Apple to succeed, he will continue...
...undergraduate has most of her room wiped out in a fire. Miraculously, her Macintosh escaped without damage, but the blaze destroyed a decade's writing. If the computer had been damaged, some of her documents would have been irretrievable...
Moreover, their message did not strike me as preachy in tone. Macintosh did continually stress our responsibility to make the most of our experience at Harvard and the gifts we have...