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...line. Future Microsoft PC operating systems will be based on Windows NT, the OS first designed for business machines. NT, a more efficient and secure product, marks the company's long-overdue break from the antediluvian MS-DOS. It will also supposedly run most current Windows programs. It had better...
...Microsoft, it's a simple menu guiding surfers to popular sites like Disney and CNN. To Redmond's critics, it's an abuse of monopoly power. The Active Channel Bar "decreases consumer choice," the Software Publishers Association told the Justice Department. In response, Microsoft said PC makers could sell copies of Win 98 with the channel bar hidden. That wasn't enough for SPA president Ken Wasch, who says, "The channel bar should be completely empty," so anyone other than Microsoft can fill...
...find a few things to complain about. The once standard fax utility, for instance, has vanished, though if you already have Microsoft Fax on your machine, you'll still be able to use it. And although most pre-Win 98 applications will work fine, old versions of disk utilities like Norton Antivirus will require upgrades. Games like Activision's Heavy Gear that use Win 95 movie features also might not work properly. (Microsoft says early bugs have been fixed; we'll see.) Then there's Win 98's gluttonous appetite for hard-drive space: if you upgrade, be prepared...
What do corporate chiefs know about the market? Individually, very little. Star honchos like Jack Welch at General Electric and Bill Gates at Microsoft can't time the Dow any better than the Beardstown Ladies. But they clearly know more about their own companies than anyone on Wall Street. So their actions as a group say something about the market as a whole. That's why analysts monitor things like insider stock transactions, new stock offerings and corporate stock buybacks. Even for wealthy CEOs, the object is to buy low and sell high, whether in managing the company's coffers...
...Beltway calls the sort of public relations pounding Microsoft has taken in recent months "getting Borked," in honor of the partisan drubbing that kept Judge Robert Bork off the Supreme Court. So it was acutely ironic that the person doing the Borking last week was Judge Bork...