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...Java is the way it will run with equal ease on a variety of computer operating systems: Microsoft's Windows 95, Apple's Macintosh and various flavors of Unix. Java carves out what Sun calls a "virtual Java machine" within the software of each of these computer systems, thus getting around an irksome problem that has bedeviled programmers and users since the dawn of the computer age: incompatibility. Incompatibility is the reason that a program written for, say, a Windows machine won't run on a Mac, and vice versa. "Java really levels the playing field," says Scott McNealy, chairman...
...that price, it's not clear what kind of market the new machines would attract. For $1,500 in post-Christmas sales, you can pick up a Windows or Macintosh computer that comes with loads of built-in software and hundreds of megabytes of storage, and that can also be hooked up to the net. Moreover, when your connection to the Internet goes down, these computers can still do useful work...
Eric M. Mindich '88, the head of risk arbitrage at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Ben Waldman '89, the manager of Macintosh Technology for Microsoft, and Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies '87 were the Harvard alumni who made the list...
Waldman, who interned at Microsoft after his junior year at Harvard, is now one of the company's primary creative forces in charge of developing technology for the Macintosh...
Surpising market watchers, Apple Computer Inc. announced today that, despite higher sales, it will likely lose money in the current quarter. "It is a sign that the personal computer market is getting more fiercely competitive," says business writer Barbara Rudolph. "Apple is not about to go bankrupt, the Macintosh is still very popular, but it is an indication that they might have to start cutting costs and selling more computers. Also, Apple has a history of management problems, which could have hurt profits. In the past, Apple's dilemma was an inadequate supply of computers, now it's competition from...