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SOFTWARE Peeping Into Windows For geeks, it's a scintillating show: Microsoft is releasing its closely guarded Windows source code - the instructions that make it run - to most governments. The move is designed to fend off the threat from Linux, the open-source platform that is gaining headway in governments across Europe. Cheaper and, many experts say, more secure than Windows, Linux is the world's fastest-growing server operating system. Openness becomes a strength because users share improvements. Microsoft wants to reassure governments about security, but it hasn't shed all its reserve. This show is only a peep...
...TECH STOCKS Winners. Even if they never get religion on traditional dividends, cash cows Oracle, Dell, Microsoft and Cisco could issue "deemed" dividends that reflect profit that might have been paid as cash but was instead retained by the company for future investment. For tax purposes, the value of undistributed profit would be added to the price you paid for the stock and leave you with a smaller taxable gain when you sell...
...were a public company, the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians would be the envy of corporate America. With a return on revenue of 41%, the tribe's Silver Star Resort & Casino would top the Fortune 500 profitability list, dwarfing even money spinners like Microsoft, whose 29% return last year seems modest by comparison. The Choctaw Tribe has proved even more productive by another crucial yardstick: influence peddling in Washington. How successful is it? In 1997 the tribe secured its very own special-interest provision hidden in a massive federal-spending bill. And it taps the government for tens of millions...
MAGGIE WILDEROTTER Technology Trailblazer After starting in accounts receivable at a software firm, she rose rapidly in the telecom industry and eventually built Wink Communications into the world's largest interactive-TV service. Now Wilderotter, 47, is the highest-ranking woman at Microsoft; she was just named senior VP of business strategy and given a mandate to increase sales to governments and schools...
...ordinary ballpoint pen, but it contains a computer chip that records and remembers every scribble. When you're through writing, the IO downloads your jottings to your PC, where you can either save them as pictures or use handwriting-recognition software to convert them to text in an ordinary Microsoft Word document...