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Figuring how to beat the competition without setting off the alarm at Justice is the job of Microsoft's newly appointed chief software architect. His name: Bill Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Landscapes: AOL-Time Warner Merger: Microsoft: Everything's O.K. Now, Right? Wrong | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...investors, this is a good time to contemplate such a turn. Tech stocks have repaired their millennial meltdown, giving you another chance to sell high, and you've seen that a "diversified" portfolio of Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Lucent and Yahoo doesn't offer much panic protection. Tech remains a great place to be long term--but not exclusively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quit Now, Al | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...that only the first 500 characters of each message are transmitted--and push a button to retrieve the rest of any message I want to read to the end. And the cradle that plugs into my PC and allows me to synchronize it with Microsoft Outlook, Scheduler+ and Lotus Organizer--if I used any of those programs--doubles as a recharger, which is included in eLink's $359 price. (By contrast, the Blackberry costs $399, and you don't get a recharger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blackberry Jam | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...have the answers right now. But first, a few disclosures are necessary. Readers have the right to know that TIME magazine will be part of AOL Time Warner. The author of this essay, by contrast, has a day job as editor of Slate, an online magazine published by Microsoft. Microsoft owns an online service, msn, that competes with AOL. Microsoft and AOL Time Warner will have competing investments in the cable industry. On yet another hand, Microsoft and Time Warner are co-investors in a high-speed cable-Internet connection business called Roadrunner. On a fourth hand, Microsoft owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: Six Degrees of America Online | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

Readers should also take into consideration that Microsoft is a partner with NBC, which is owned by General Electric, in an all-news cable channel, MSNBC, which competes with CNN, which is owned by AOL Time Warner. What's more, the editor in chief of MSNBC.com the cable channel's affiliated website, is my mother's brother's wife's aunt's husband's nephew, which obviously makes it difficult for me to evaluate objectively the merits of a merger between a company (AOL) that recently bought the company (Netscape) that makes the Internet browser that competes with the browser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: Six Degrees of America Online | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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