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...last week looked bad for BILL GATES--a judge ordered him to hand over the heretofore secret blueprints for Microsoft Windows--this week may be even worse. For starters, he'll be spending at least two days with a pack of federal prosecutors, who will grill him on Wednesday and Thursday about Microsoft's alleged anticompetitive practices. He'll also spend some of the week batting back accusations that the firm's new Windows 98 operating system was "undercooked" and rushed to market before it was ready. Though the software has been selling briskly, critics have been compiling an increasingly...
Remember last week, when word broke that versions of Microsoft's and Netscape's e-mail programs were afflicted with a nasty glitch, and we advised you to buy a "bug-free" copy of Qualcomm's Eudora? Umm, never mind! It turns out that the latest iterations of the popular Eudora Pro (4.0 and above) have an equally gaping security hole that could let bad guys get into your PC. If you use it, be sure to get the patch at eudora.com...
...content with his achievements to date, Bill Gates seems to want another title on his resume: Pioneer of the Web browser. In an interview with the Seattle Times, printed Sunday, the Microsoft CEO announces that he came up with the idea on an April 5, 1994 executive retreat: "I said, 'Hey, we're going to get (the browser) integrated with the operating system,' " Gates claims. Which, if true, would be extraordinarily convenient. It would prove that Microsoft Explorer and Windows were always intended to be one product, contrary to the Justice Department's claims. And it would predate the establishment...
WASHINGTON: Get ready for the Bill Gates Show. In one of the most bizarre twists of the antitrust action against Microsoft, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson agreed Tuesday to turn Chairman Bill's forthcoming deposition into a spectator sport. Lawyers for several media companies had resurrected an obscure turn-of-the-century law that says such occasions "shall be open to the public as freely as are trials in open court." And try as he might to ignore it, Jackson had to admit that the statute still stands...
...surprisingly, Microsoft was furious. "This is no way to run a railroad," said Charles "Rick" Rule, a former Justice Department enforcer turned Microsoft legal adviser. The software billionaire was due to be deposed by the DOJ Wednesday at his Redmond campus, but that's likely to be delayed until all the logistics can be ironed out. And boy, are there ever logistics -- how many people to admit and the thorny issue of ordering everyone out when Gates starts talking about company secrets. As Rule complains, "any level-headed person in the DOJ should see the need to protect confidentiality." Given...