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With the DOJ and states' attorneys general still hedging on a definitive declaration of intent to file suit against Microsoft this week, Sun was first out of the gate Tuesday with a request to forbid Microsoft to distribute Windows 98 unless it contains Sun's version of Java. Sun already has a lawsuit in progress against Microsoft for taking liberties with Java, an issue that has also atttracted the attention of the DOJ. But much remains in doubt at this point. The DOJ and the states -- whose number has grown from the 13 that originated the investigation -- are still widely...
...earth supported a mere 2.5 billion people in 1950, but by the millennium there'll be 6 billion mouths to feed. These people will also need parking spaces, copies of Microsoft Windows and vacuum cleaners. Or maybe not. Virtually all of the 86 million new human beings per year -- 98 percent of them -- are being born to mothers in the developing world, where luxuries are rare. Central Africa leads the procreation race, followed by parts of Asia and Latin America...
...among young technocrat planners over cold Snowflake Beer in the cafes of Sanlitun, the conversation has shifted from how to control the Net to how to exploit it. "The government is betting that PCs and the Net can help competitiveness," says Thomas Lin, a Beijing-based product manager for Microsoft. "Now they want them on every desk...
...every field from health care to finance. By 2010 hundreds of millions of Chinese will be wired to the Golden Bridge financial network, carrying Golden Card smart cards and automatically forking over a chunk of their salaries to the government via a microchip-enabled Golden Tax. Says Bryan Nelson, Microsoft's commanding general in the region: "China is going to be the ultimate proof of all that the Internet can do. And the amazing thing is, the Chinese seem to understand that. Better than some people in the West, actually...
...held dream -- a takeover of the mothership via a merger with AT&T.
Microsoft isn't your biggest headache after...