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COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY Meticulous new Microsoft judge goes from anonymity to Bill Gates' best...
...great skeptical herald of the Internet age, the irreverent chronicle of digital business, which this year won a prestigious journalism award for its coverage of the AOL Time Warner merger. Last month, when the Standard played host at one of its conferences to the digital powers that be, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and rival Sun boss Scott McNealy squared off over Microsoft's controversial new Windows XP operating system...
...course, rival Lucent is still slashing costs, according to the WSJ, which quoted CEO Henry Schacht as saying, "These are uncertain times. We've got on our belts, suspenders, parachutes and skyhooks." But that?s Lucent. And at Microsoft, business marches on - it?s presenting the finished version, or "gold code," of Windows XP to PC manufacturers on Friday. Along with a dead fish wrapped in newspaper...
Murdoch has several factors in his favor, beyond possibly friendly management at Hughes. With two deep-pocketed backers behind him, Microsoft and Liberty Cable's John Malone, Murdoch could hand over as much as $7 billion in cash. In mergers and acquisitions, cash is king. (Ergen has said he would consider adding some cash.) Most significant, there's considerable skepticism in the industry that antitrust regulators would let Ergen combine the nation's two largest satellite companies...
...Microsoft's Bill Gates is smiling at Intel's Andy Grove because...