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Bill Gates' time is valuable. There are Microsoft employees who wait their whole career to be alone with Gates for 45 minutes. As the richest man in the world and, arguably, the greatest philanthropist in history, at any given moment Gates could and probably should be off feeding the hungry or curing some horrible disease...
...week of Apple's latest operating system software, Tiger ($129), they'll have good reason. Tiger is the fourth and easily the most significant upgrade to Mac OS X (following Puma, Jaguar and Panther). Its main selling point, a desktop search application called Spotlight, is similar to a feature Microsoft is touting in its next Windows release, Longhorn-which won't be out for at least another year. And that's not all. Here's what you get if you put a Tiger in your digital tank...
While Borland's strategy has not yet pulled down prices industry-wide, at least two major companies have discounted programs competing with Borland products. Last summer Lotus Development (1984 sales: $157 million) cut the price of its Spotlight program, which competes with Sidekick, from $150 to $75. Microsoft (fiscal 1985 sales: $140 million) is now offering customers a $40 rebate on its rival Pascal software. Still, Microsoft President Jon Shirley scoffs at the notion that his firm will have to match Borland's prices any time soon. Though software may be expensive, he argues, the quality of programs has steadily...
These are serious questions, and they are becoming more serious everyday. On January 20 of this year (the day, incidentally, of President Bush’s second inauguration) Microsoft announced that it had sold a record-breaking 6.4 million copies of its new game Halo 2. The same game pulled in $125 million on its first day of sales, three times the amount made on the most successful opening day in movie history (Spider-Man, $40.4 million). Of course, the movie industry is still much larger than the video game industry, but it may not be so for very much...
...grids complete with team names, seeds, and projected winners—it dawned on me that I was part of something, maybe something special. If this is what it means to be a Harvard College student—bringing the same precision, the same drive, and the same killer Microsoft Office skills to partying as we do to life—then dammit...