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...those geeks have realized there's money to be made from selling user-friendly versions of this powerful and supremely stable software to those who yearn for something better than Windows. Now Wal-Mart's website is selling $299 PCs that run on an operating system called Lindows (Microsoft is suing over the name), while another Linux brand called Lycoris Desktop LX is about to hit the shelves at CompUSA. The ubiquitous Linux logo, a penguin, is already a hit at places like IBM and much of the U.S. government. Should the rest of us tune...
...before recovering--briefly. The Dow lost 7.6% of its value last week. The broader market, as measured by the S&P 500, is now down 45% from the high it set in March 2000. Some companies' earnings were down last week, but more were up, including DaimlerChrysler's and Microsoft...
...Christ returns, every eye shall see Him,'" she quotes from Revelation. Thanks to CNN and the Internet, "we're getting to a place where every eye could actually behold such an event." The books were enough to persuade Sandra Keathley, a Boeing employee in Wichita, Kans., not to buy Microsoft's Windows XP, because she has heard rumors that it carries a method of tracking e-mail. (In fact, the software had an instant-messaging bug that was later fixed.) If the Antichrist were to come, she fears, "and you want to contact another Christian, they could see that, trace...
...those who would become successful cable operators in Europe must step over the bodies of brave people, including Microsoft's own Bill Gates, and pick their way through cultural minefields. Premium cable TV has been a bust across most of the Continent, where people spend more time in cafes and pubs, and less in front of the tube, than Americans do. When Europeans watch TV, they're used to getting high-quality programming on state-subsidized channels. Only a few years ago, German media giant Bertelsmann gave up entirely on the floundering pay-TV market. Dutch TV production company Endemol...
Five years ago, Sabeer Bhatia, 33, sold his e-mail company, Hot Mail, to Microsoft for $400 million. Since then the Indian-born bachelor has had trouble keeping up his sizzling reputation. Last year his technology consulting site, Arzoo.com closed just 18 months after its launch. Undaunted, he has unveiled TeliVoice, a service that allows cellular subscribers in India to send cheap voice messages to the U.S. and Canada. If even a fraction of India's 6 million cell-phone users sign on, he will have success. Not bad for a man who once planned to sell sandwiches...