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NEELIE KROES, incoming E.U. antitrust czar, defending the honorary degree Nyenrode University gave Bill Gates in 1996, when she was its head. Brussels is currently fighting an antitrust case with Microsoft...
...flat-screen monitor. The coolest application is a game called Disney's Extremely Goofy Skateboarding, in which Goofy skateboards underwater and performs all sorts of spins and slides. There are also Disney-themed programs for mixing your own music, creating digital videos and drawing pictures. Kids can use Microsoft Works for homework and can safely surf the Net, thanks to the ContentProtect Internet filtering program. Built by the European PC maker Medion, the $599 PC (plus $299 for the 14.1-in. monitor) features a 2.66 GHz Intel Celeron processor, a 40-GB hard drive, 256 MB of memory...
...billion Amount Microsoft plans to pay out this year in a one-time dividend for shareholders...
...room last year, the exact room, and she was amazing,” Shakir said. “She sent me pictures of the room and about a three-page long e-mail. I was so excited. She even drew out a floor plan on Microsoft Word. That was really cool...
...wave of business philanthropy is breaking across Europe. Corporate giving is commonplace in the U.S., where a century ago the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller family pioneered a new type of corporate altruism. Their foundations remain models for companies and wealthy business people, including Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose family foundation is one of the world's biggest. In Europe, however, with the exception of Britain, corporate-giving traditions were wiped out by war, inflation and the growth of the welfare state, which left firms with little incentive to dole out funds. Fueled by high taxes, governments have carried...