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...prospect of such low prices has spawned even more consortiums eager to be top dogs in the satellite-Internet communications business. The most ambitious venture is Teledesic, founded in 1990 by deep-pocket investors including Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (with a 13.7% stake), and cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, who is the chairman and co-chief executive. Motorola, after a frosty initial reaction to the project, dropped its own system, Celestri, and joined in with $750 million for a 26% stake. Once jeered as the most starry-eyed start-up ever, the $9 billion Teledesic project...
...Dorner, the guy who wrote the program a decade ago and gave it away free, personally answers the 1,000 e-mail messages he gets each week from admirers and flamers alike. What I loved most about Eudora was that, aside from working beautifully, it is not owned by Microsoft...
...Microsoft bigot, exactly. I just worry about what the world will be like when it finally squashes all competition. For instance, I used Netscape's browser for years and have it on my computer still. But it's become something of an affectation, like sporting a DOLE IN '96 bumper sticker. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 does most of what Netscape's browser does, and it fits better with the Windows operating system--exactly as Bill Gates and his evil geniuses intended. Besides, I got so sick of all the insistent dialogue boxes that Windows popped up whenever I installed...
...with Microsoft's $100 e-mail program, Outlook 98. It came out in March, but I resisted, finally installing it a few months ago. I won't be reverting to the $40 Eudora Pro 4.0 (not even if Eudora changes its name to "Fry," after Stephen Fry, my favorite novelist this month...
...with IE, Microsoft has beefed up Outlook until it does everything the competition does, and then some. For instance, Outlook handles addresses better than Eudora and saves my weary fingers wear and tear. Send or reply to a message, and the recipient's name and address are automatically filed in a directory. Next time you send that person a message, a few keystrokes of the name will prompt Outlook to finish...