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...strongest memory of the first week at Harvard is using my pre-med roommate’s digital calculator—it was, miraculously, no bigger than a telephone, and none of us had ever seen one; then, during our junior and senior years, Apple and Microsoft were founded, and in our 20s we were all using...
...other gripe is that the new online links tend to funnel users to Microsoft services. Setting up a Microsoft Hotmail or MSN account to run in the slick Outlook software is a snap; doing it with non-Microsoft providers is a chore. Highlight an address in Word, and you can map it online--using Microsoft Expedia. Type a stock symbol, and you can get a live price--from Microsoft Money Central. You get the idea...
None of these links were essential, so I'm not too worried about Microsoft's playing favorites--yet. But since the company is a convicted monopolist, at least in the eyes of a U.S. district-court judge, you have to wonder where all this will lead...
What's the solution? To most people a problem is a problem, but to some - ;especially those building the New Economy (despite its current travails) - ;a problem is an opportunity. Many companies, from Microsoft to small start-ups, are building tools that allow users to specify their privacy preferences and then communicate automatically with websites using a standard language called P3P. The websites also state their privacy policies in P3P, and then the computers figure out if they match. Some of the systems require you to store your data with the vendor; others let you manage everything yourself. Some...
...long as I'm in the office I decide to have I.T. install the new Microsoft Office suite. It's a chip implanted behind my right ear. I can think through proposals and e-mails without ever having to type. (I'm not even sure I remember how to type. Schools stopped teaching it years ago after the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Association filed a class-action lawsuit...