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When I read Bill Gates' rule no. 1, "Insist that communication flow through e-mail," I thought, What a great way to run a company, and the proof is Microsoft! Yet the U.S. government ruthlessly pursues defendants in antitrust cases. Perhaps it is time for Americans to start investigating some of the economic failures in their country rather than the successes. JIM WIGLE Barrie, Ontario...
...have not followed the antitrust case against Microsoft closely. Nevertheless, as a Windows 95 user for the past four years, I cannot help hoping for a verdict, specially written for Microsoft, that reads, "Warning: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." CHRIS MCINTIRE Big Bear City, Calif...
Hardwaremakers are also being hurt because softwaremakers aren't producing the power- and memory-sucking innovations that made consumers and businesses race out to upgrade their machines. The next big app, Microsoft's Windows 2000, is likely to require only a 300-MHz processor, already standard in today's bargain-basement PCs. So M. Lewis Temares, vice president of information technology at the University of Miami, figures that besides a few university officials who need high-octane processors for such things as complex med-school accounting software, his people are fine with the hardware in place...
...apartment in Aberdeen, New Jersey." Smith is being held at the Monmouth County Jail. Technicians from America Online were apparently involved in the state and federal manhunt, helping trace an AOL account that had been hijacked. Also key was a controversial serial number encoded surreptitiously by some Microsoft programs...
RADIO FREE MICROSOFT The latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer doesn't push Web browsing to any new heights, but it does offer a few bells, whistles and radio knobs. Yes, radio knobs. A new toolbar lets you set up direct links to your favorite Internet radio stations--a trick taken straight from broadcast.com The browser and radio are free (you can download them from www.microsoft.com) And sticking with the business practice that landed the company in court, Microsoft plans to sell a new edition of Windows 98 with IE 5.0 bundled...