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...millions of fanatically loyal users who will give up their Macs only when you pry their one-button mice from their cold, dead fingers. But Apple's annual revenues have dropped from $8 billion to less than $6 billion, and the company continues to lose market share to the Microsoft-Intel-dominated world. A little more than 4% of new PCs sold in the U.S. are Macs. (Don't ask about worldwide sales, where Apple has actually slipped to less than 3% of the market, from 5.2% five years ago.) With Microsoft's antitrust troubles tabled...
...three? Compaq and/or Hewlett Packard, Dell and Sony. The rival he's pursuing most aggressively is Sony, which not only makes stylish computers ("They copy us like crazy!") but also makes plenty of digital lifestyle products. "I would rather compete with Sony than compete in another product category with Microsoft," he says. That's because Sony has to rely on other companies to make its software. "We're the only company that owns the whole widget--the hardware, the software and the operating system," he says. "We can take full responsibility for the user experience. We can do things that...
...Best Legal Chutzpah To settle private antitrust claims that it overcharged for its Windows operating software, in which it has a monopoly, Microsoft said it would donate more than $1 billion in software and training to the poorest schools in the U.S. Not everybody is happy. A U.S. federal judge is considering whether to make the company donate cash instead of its products, lest Microsoft gain dominance in the education market...
Levin has been a tireless proponent of cable-TV systems as the gateway for delivering the Internet and entertainment. He has led AOL Time Warner into a battle with Comcast and Cox--both backed by Microsoft--to buy some or all of AT&T Broadband, the nation's largest cable company. But some executives and board members argue that there are ways--over telephone lines or by satellite--to reach those households without burdening AOL Time Warner with billions more in debt. Parsons is leading the AT&T talks and will have to decide what price--in dollars and regulatory...
...Operation Buccaneer, officials targeted one of the oldest pirate rings called “DrinkOrDie.” Founded in Moscow in 1993, DrinkOrDie became famous among software hackers for claiming it released a copy of Microsoft Windows 95 two weeks before Microsoft began selling...