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...able to agree on a new DVD format with enough capacity to do the job. Instead, they have broken into two warring camps: the so-called Blu-ray group (established by Sony and endorsed by Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer and Samsung) and the HD DVD Promotion Group (supported by Toshiba, Microsoft and others). So far, that hasn't been a problem for consumers eager to buy DVD players for their big-screen HDTVs because nobody actually sold any players...
...concerns about the trade deficit. Toward that end, Beijing sent an advance team to spread the kind of goodwill Americans can take to the bank--a 200-strong delegation led by Vice Premier Wu Yi that has plans to ink contracts for about $16 billion in U.S. goods, including Microsoft software and up to 80 Boeing jets...
...possible. The upshot: lots of cell phones can view web pages, increasingly many can play mp3s, but if you want your phone to open Word documents, you have to pay for the privilege. The ones that are best at doing it are the ones that run a Microsoft operating system. Aside from this relatively petty convenience, the amount of innovation that has been stifled as a result is anyone’s guess. But one thing is certain: because many, many billions of dollars are locked up in Word documents, entering the word processing business is a difficult feat unless...
Apple, oft-billed as the counter-establishment alternative to monolithic Microsoft, isn’t guilt-free by any stretch: their code for copy-protecting music file is also kept under lock and key, and it’s the only language that the iPod understands. If you want to sell copy-restricted music that will play on an iPod, you’re out of luck unless you want to go through the iTunes Music Store...
It’s hard to judge the damage done by these restrictive practices: on the one hand, Apple is selling a lot of music, and Microsoft a lot of word processing software. But the thanks to the early open standardization of the web, the thought of its belonging to any one company now seems absurd to us—Facebook uses it, Google uses it, universities use it, and each in its own way. Only when we demand that Microsoft and Apple and others play nice with one another—only when they’ve made their...