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...official Harvard computer dealer and offers educational pricing on certain Macintosh and IBM-compatible systems as well as software and accessories. Its campus location, a block away from Memorial Hall, makes it the closest stop on your computer shopping trip...
CUPERTINO, Calif.: Effectively splashing out two-thirds of its pocket money from Microsoft, Apple Computer has snapped up one of the leading producers of Macintosh clones. Their $100 million stock purchase of Power Computing Corp, coming hot on the heels of Bill Gates' $150 million investment in Apple, may seem rather quixotic given that the company's share of the overall computer market has been squeezed to under 5 percent by cheap PCs. "They could buy up all their competitors, and still not make any progress," says TIME's computer industry analyst David Jackson. "It's like bringing your uncle...
...million-strong Mac-user base while increasing Apple's reliance on Microsoft software to keep the public hooked on its computers. The deal, says Mike Homer, a Netscape executive vice president, "puts the whole application base in Microsoft's hands. And if they control that, they control the Macintosh...
...there's plenty about Macintosh that's worth controlling. Gates' richest prize may be Apple's intellectual property, both silicon-and carbon-based. The graphic designers, software gurus and other artsy types who constitute the Mac's most fervent cadres are a disproportionately influential market niche. Some two-thirds of all Websites are thought to have been created on Macs. "It's very attractive to Microsoft to have access to cutting-edge Mac developers," says Kurt King, an analyst with San Francisco-based Montgomery Securities, "particularly in areas like video streaming and other graphics technologies that represent the likely future...
...attack on the Sun/Netscape/Apple alliance that would use Java to fight Microsoft for control of the Web. Gates wants a proprietary Java platform optimized for Windows. This deal moves him closer to that goal while nudging his rivals further from their own. "Netscape could have shored up the Macintosh situation," says Dave Winer, an early Mac developer. "Same with Sun. They could have given Apple $150 million. They just weren't playing strategically. Microsoft...