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...forgive spectators from being a little confused today when U.S. v. Microsoft resumes after a two-week holiday break. We pick up almost exactly where we left off: A little fish (in this case, Intuit) describing how the big piranha from Redmond offered to swallow them up -- or grind them into fish sticks with the power of its Windows operating system. Because most of the testimony has already been leaked to the press (and Microsoft's PR machine has already responded), today may play like an old rerun...
...Approximate percentage of the world's desktop computers on which Microsoft's Windows 95 is installed...
...games! I play a lot of them on my computer, and my current favorite is Age of Empires: the Rise of Rome (Microsoft; $24.95). The original game is more than a year old, but the "expansion pack" that was released a few months ago is shamefully addictive. It's a strategy game: you start out in the Stone Age, and if you manage your resources correctly--building armies, collecting wood, harvesting food--you can progress all the way to ancient Roman times. Just the right amount of strategy and terrific graphics of stuff blowing...
...year Microsoft would like to forget is closing out on an appropriately galling note for the company as a California state court Monday ordered it to stop filtering out messages from users of Blue Mountain Arts, an e-mail greeting card service. Being cast as the Grinch was the frosting on a cake that's mostly ended up in the company's face this fall, and for once it was actually the result of trying to make a better product for consumers...
...version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer comes with an e-mail product, Outlook Express, that automatically sorts out junk mail and puts in the trash. Trouble is, the filter sometimes mistakes legitimate correspondence for spam, and that's what's been happening to the digital Christmas cards that people have been sending via Blue Mountain. Microsoft was ordered to provide Blue Mountain by Tuesday with whatever information it needed to bypass the overzealous filter -- which, ironically, trashes Microsoft e-cards too -- and must post warnings on the product alerting users to the potential for lost mail. Microsoft had tried...