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Bill Gates left Harvard before he could graduate, but his latest concoction--Microsoft Windows 98--is about to find its way into students' lives...
...Yahoo's earnings prove it's the strongest company in the group, says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. Will it turn out to be the next Microsoft? "That's a crazy bet to make and yet everybody's making it," Kadlec says. "Yahoo is riding a mania for Internet stocks, just like the mania for biotech in 1991. These stocks have so much room to collapse." Indeed, in announcing only a 2-for-1 split Wednesday (effective in August), Yahoo might be signaling that it knows some bearish days are coming. Notes Kadlec: "A $200 stock price means Yahoo...
Ulterior Motive by Daniel Oran: A former program manager at Microsoft (he invented the Start button for Windows 95), Oran tells the tale of Jonathan Goodman, project manager at "giant Seattle-based computer firm" Megasoft. Goodman stumbles onto a conspiracy after a colleague and Megasoft's billionaire owner are murdered...
...MICROSOFT'S WOES...
...Spice Girls and "astrology -- and the little ladies didn't stop there. Coming in at No. 6 was sassy, IMF-bashing Malaysian prime minister Mahathir, whose shirtless pose on the cover of Foreign Affairs magazine last month set hearts aflutter the world over. No. 7 was horoscope; No. 8, Microsoft (indicating that Bill Gates's new PR campaign may be having unexpected effects); No. 9 was Malaysia, and at No. 10, Time Warner's very own Teen People...