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...prepare to enter a savage and cruel world full of smaller mail quotas and busy signals, $400 Microsoft Office and inadequate warranties. How ever will we survive...
...ever say again he's not charitable. According to Fortune.com, Microsoft's megaboss just plunked down $3.3 billion for the benefit of two charitable foundations, whose names (if not functions) you may recognize: the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation. The former supports world health and human services programs, while the latter helps libraries in poor neighborhoods obtain software and computer services. TIME magazine Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec says that this is believed to be "the largest charitable donation by any individual. The donations are a testament not only to Microsoft's huge success, but also...
...most noticeable of these will be the Maxwell-Dworkin building on Oxford Street north of the Science Center. The result of a $25 million donation by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Class of '77 and Executive Vice-President Steven A. Ballmer '77, the building will house the computer science and electrical engineering departments...
...past few weeks the Microsoft trial had been in danger of slipping out of the public eye. Its endless procession of less-than-riveting economics professors and forgetful executives, mixed with scads of legal and technical split hairs, just hasn?t made for gripping headlines. But on Tuesday the government?s point man, David Boies, suggested in court that a videotape offered as evidence by Microsoft had been altered, and as soon as Bill Gates?s team had wriggled out from under that one, yet more doubts about the tape cropped up. Did Microsoft really try to slip faked evidence...
...course, there?s nothing the media -- or the prosecution, for that matter -- likes better than a little doctored tape. The videotaped demonstration was intended to demonstrate that removing Microsoft?s Internet Explorer web browser from a computer running the Windows 98 operating system would make that machine run significantly more slowly. This would support Microsoft?s point that the browser was an integral part of the operating system, and thus that Microsoft couldn?t be accused of leveraging its near-monopoly on operating systems to gain market share for its browser. MORE...