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...just the chairman of Microsoft and the richest man in the world, with $46 billion in his bank account. Later this year the Queen of England will make Bill Gates a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his philanthropic work. TIME's Lev Grossman caught up with him on a speaking tour of college campuses...
WHAT DOES MICROSOFT PLAN TO DO ABOUT IT? We're doing the software that will change the rules in terms of authenticating e-mail. We call that caller ID for e-mail. We're making it so that somebody you exchange with regularly always gets passed through, and in the more exceptional case where it's a stranger, to make sure their mail is not confused with a spam e-mail. And we're making sure other people who do mail systems understand this so they can partner in and be part of the solution...
Sometimes even a notebook computer is too bulky to carry around. But so far, tinier mini-PCs haven't taken off. Vulcan Inc., started by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, may change that with its new FlipStart PC. Weighing in at less than 1 lb. and powered by a 1-GHz Transmeta processor, the FlipStart measures just 6 in. wide, 4 in. deep and 1 in. thick yet packs in a 30-GB hard drive and 256 MB of memory. Available in late 2004, it also has special touches to make navigating its bright 6-in., HDTV-quality display easier...
...INDICATORS Reading The Fine Print Japan 's competition watchdog raided Microsoft's Tokyo offices on suspicion that it set unfair conditions when granting software licenses to Japanese computer makers. Microsoft denied the charge, but deleted the provision from future contracts...
Gates praised the effects of globalization in the computing world but said advanced positions at Microsoft are not in danger of heading overseas...