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...businesses from lighting and appliances to NBC are slumping and, some critics suggest, cash cows like power systems and aircraft engines may be peaking. Even the political climate has changed. In Europe, regulators scotched GE's proposed $43 billion deal with Honeywell (last week they moved on to Microsoft). In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency is forcing GE to clean up the mess it made dumping PCBs into the Hudson River...
...time when Web users are beginning to freak out about sites collecting (and hawking to others) their sensitive billing and personal information, the presumed dominance of IE6 would allow Microsoft a new chance to play the gatekeeper - this time setting its own standards for which Web sites? user-profiling "cookies" work on Web surfers and which...
...also puts them in an ideal position to pitch users the company?s alternative: Microsoft Passport, the one-stop "e-wallet" which has already been called an attempted "choke point" on e-commerce by none other than Microsoft?s chief rival, AOL-Time Warner (parent company of this writer, and developer of competing choke points...
...desktop wars, they might want to take a look at what Explorer and Passport can do together in the next battle: the e-commerce wars. The way Gates sees it, not only would an Explorer-promoted Passport have the definitive leg up in delivering Web shoppers to sites of Microsoft?s choosing, Explorer-Passport could then become the mother of all cookies, protecting users? online privacy by keeping the information all to itself...
...This is the sort of thing Justice has in mind when it says it will "end Microsoft's unlawful conduct, prevent its recurrence and open the operating- systems market to competition." But George W. Bush, fearing for both his economy and his standing with the business lobby, seems unlikely to press too hard -not when Bill Gates is his still a leading candidate to get the tech sector fizzing again. Microsoft, after some rough-and-tumble negotiations, looks poised to go free...