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FLIGHT SIMULATORS Best-selling MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR now comes in two flavors--with combat and without. The aim, not surprisingly, is to stay aloft while handling all the complexities of a modern cockpit. Unless you count deliberately crashing into a cornfield or re-enacting air combat from World War II, there's not too much mayhem...
...reporting pain and seeking treatment-as those found at Harvard. And the real world has its own share of RSI problems: with 20 million people affected, RSIs are the nations foremost work-related injury. Yet disparities remain. Sarita M. James 98 is in her first year of working at Microsoft. "None of the Microsoftees that I ve met have RSI," she wrote in an email, "which is rather surprising, considering the pervasive Microsoft slouch. " Similarly incongruous is the report of Karen Gordon, at the Princeton University Health Center. This year she has seen "an increase in the number of cases...
...monopolistic history doesn't ease many minds, nor does its new $5 billion deal with perhaps the next monopoly to get trustbusted, Microsoft, about extending Windows' current hegemony into all those set-top boxes. AT&T isn't promising exclusivity -- it says it'll honor TCI's old deal with Sun for some Java-run boxes, and promised Microsoft only a few "showcase cities" -- but Mr. Gates clearly has his foot in the door, and Netscape will tell you what generally happens after that. Will AT&T go under the government's knife again? It's early yet, but cable...
...purchase, is one that AT&T needed to make," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "Now they're at the vanguard of the next thing in telecommunications." In fact, it's so in love that it's already hired someone to look after its Internet-friendly kids: Microsoft...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataAccording to the New York Times, AT&T is close to inking a partnership with the House of Gates in which Microsoft, for $5 billion, would get a 2 to 3 percent slice of AT&T. More important, Microsoft would get the only thing it likes better than cash: market share, via a commitment from AT&T to use Windows software in every set-top Internet/phone/cable box that AT&T will be running wires into. Is the new Ma Cable moving a little too fast? Not if the deal was Microsoft's price for staying...