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Gates' strategy-as laid out in a series of public appearances over the past two weeks-certainly makes sense. Before the end of the year, Microsoft will begin offering "one-button" access to the Internet to anyone who buys Windows 95, the newest version of its wildly successful Macintosh-like point-and-click system (60 million copies sold). Given the Internet's well-deserved reputation as a difficult place to reach, Microsoft's promise of a one-stop, easy-to-use gateway ("just click on this button and you're there") is sure to attract a lot of first-time...
Police said the Power Macintosh computer and Apple Desktop mouse found on Smith belonged to Harvard professor Douglas Melton, Melton could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Keith J. Smith, 36, was charged with breaking and entering, possession of burglary tools and larceny over $250. He was apprehended around 9 a.m. after allegedly stealing a Power Macintosh computer from the Biochemistry Building and concealing it in a laundry bag, police said...
...good as sent. Check stock quotes, send faxes, review your phone messages. With this book-size device, Sony has quietly done what Apple's Newton conspicuously failed to do: made a "personal digital assistant" that pleases its boss. The whizzy interface, ironically, was built by folks from the original Macintosh design team...
...wild card in all this is the flood of new games published on CD-ROMs for personal computers. Having languished on computer-store shelves for nearly a decade, CD-ROM's for Macintosh and IBM-compatible PCs are suddenly taking off. "Trip got blindsided by CD-ROMs," says John Taylor, an analyst at L.H. Alton, a San Francisco-based investment firm. "People who bought PCs for all sorts of reasons are saying, 'I just spent $2,500 for my multimedia computer. Why should I spend $400 on a dedicated game machine...