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...with Windows NT security, and the advantages of using more secure operating systems -- Linux, for one. One might be tempted to use Bill Gates's deposition rhetoric about Java against him: That the problem with the virus and Windows NT is evidence of sloppy programming on the part of Microsoft...
Meanwhile, on the one battleground that matters--the federal courthouse--Microsoft is still doing dismally. Take its central assertion that Internet Explorer is not a separate application, but an integral part of the Windows operating system. A government expert pointed out last week that Microsoft Press's computer dictionary defines a Web browser (like Explorer) as an application...
That's just one example of how Microsoft has become its own worst enemy in this trial. Another, of course, is Gates' famously evasive videotaped testimony. Until now, Microsoft has rapped the feds for taking "snippets" of its CEO's comments out of context. But on Monday, Gates changed tack, accusing Boies of asking deliberately "ambiguous questions" and then sandbagging Microsoft by airing the tapes. If he'd known they were going to be played in court, Gates said, he would have "smiled a little...
...course? Boies suggests it could have something to do with the fact that Microsoft's legal team now has the rights to the Gates videotape--and can show it in its entirety at any time. "If they want to make it available for rent at Blockbuster, they can do it," confirms Georgetown University law professor Bill Kovacic. "But I doubt there's much context there that will help." All of which may explain why Boies is still smiling--no matter how many states are on his side...
...have to take the character to him. He brings the character to the screen." Hanks also knows how to lighten things up on the set. For the kissing scene in You've Got Mail, recalls Ryan, "we were both uncomfortable. So Tom starts talking about the Microsoft lawsuit. I knew just what he was doing. It was so generous...