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That's not a prediction. Please. But Microsoft stock rarely falls far or long before buyers swoop in. With Office 2000 released this past summer and doing well and the much anticipated Windows 2000 to be released in February, there's plenty of fuel to drive the stock higher...
What's the worst-case scenario? For Gates, it would be the court-ordered breakup of his company, but the investor might not fare badly. AT&T's spin-offs have consistently beaten the market since the government split that company. Forcing Microsoft to make its Windows source code available, opening it to competition from software writers would sting. But it would also produce incremental licensing revenue. Forcing Microsoft to design Windows to boot up AOL or another Web address would erode its dominance. But PC makers are starting to win that kind of flexibility on their own. It comes...
...time.com/personal for more on Microsoft. E-mail Dan at kadlec@time.com See him on CNNfn, Tues...
...browser wars are a good example. Netscape owned the market just two years ago. Microsoft, late to the Internet game, threw vast resources in that direction and now accounts for 64% of browser usage. Jackson's ruling means that Microsoft's capacity to assault a problem like that will probably be diminished in the future. But nothing is certain. The battle has just begun. Appeals could take years, and in the meantime the post-PC world may emerge in glory and render the judge's concerns moot. Do you want to miss another double...
...pages of information a day, does that mean 300,000 different people came to visit, or 50,000 who each visited six times? Glaser's techies tagged each user with a special ID number, or cookie, that identified them. Most big sites do the same thing, from Microsoft's to Time Warner's. But Real crossed the line when it correlated that ID number with each user's e-mail address and matched it to the user's offline listening habits. Even this might have been O.K. if it had disclosed the practice and given users the option to block...