Word: microsoft
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...popularity, the IM world remains frustratingly balkanized. At least a dozen systems are in service in the U.S. alone, many of them incompatible. This confusion adds to the pressure on AOL--which popularized instant messaging and commands a 90% share of the market--to allow rivals like Yahoo and Microsoft access to its IM systems. These cover some 80 million users under the AOL brand and a similar number under ICQ, an Israeli company that AOL bought two years ago. Says MacDonald: "AOL's installed base is the crown jewels of instant messaging...
Instead, I would argue that the 2000 New York Yankees is the Microsoft of Major League Baseball. They have created two of the most hated dynasties in the last decade. We moan that they are the manifestations of individual power-trips, that they squash the dreams of lesser-beings...
RealNetworks and Microsoft are business rivals. Real's executives have gone before the Senate to claim Microsoft tried to hurt them. So you might expect this to be an antitrust grudge match. On the surface, at least, it's not. Washington State is so pro-Gates that Cantwell, who served one term in the House, is careful to stress that "they used to call me the Congresswoman from Microsoft." Break it up? No way. "I can stand up and say I know it's a great competitor...
...this most 21st century of races, the allegiance of the competing multibillionaires, Microsoft's Gates and Real's founder Rob Glaser, is not in much doubt. Cantwell may have fought for Gates in the House, but she was voted out in '94. One year later, she was handpicked by Glaser as one of his first 15 employees and then put in charge of the company's best-selling product--Real Player--which happens to take customers from Windows Media Player. Gates, who is less than serene when it comes to competitors, will not be happy to have a Senator with...
...September, the race was too close to call. Feeling stymied and outspent, the typically blunt-spoken Gorton believes the occasion actually calls for campaign-finance deregulation. "In a race like this, I should be able to raise more than $1,000 per individual," he says. "Especially individuals from Microsoft...