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Along with its player roster. Take, for instance, MSN.com home page of the famously underperforming Microsoft Network. Later this year--if the Feds don't quash his online ambitions first--Bill Gates will launch Microsoft Start, MSN's reincarnation as a portal site. Microsoft's early Web efforts may have been feeble, but that doesn't mean the Gen-X millionaires at Yahoo and Excite won't be looking over their shoulder. "It's early in the game," says Yang. And Bill Gates tends to win in the late rounds...
...course we at Harvard still have our freedom of speech and we're not quite Microsoft U. yet. The percentage of Macintosh users here is higher than in the business world, and the computer labs have plenty of Macs plus some Unix workstations. Most campus machines seem to run Netscape Navigator instead of Internet Explorer, and most courses take pains to make sure any required software or web-distributed documents can be run or read on both Windows and Mac machines...
...hear the occasional anti-Microsoft grumble from students. Crimson columnist Kevin S. Davis '98 (Tech Talk, Jan. 5) called for the DOJ to break up Microsoft to end its monopoly. Likewise, on Feb. 17, Davis explained how the once high-flying Netscape was humbled by Microsoft's extremely aggressive competition in the browser market. And somebody invited unabashed Microsoft critic Larry Ellison (CEO of Oracle Corporation) to campus last fall, where he spoke to a packed Science Center auditorium...
...also should remember that Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig was appointed by Federal District Court Judge Thomas P. Jackson to serve as a special master on technical aspects of the current lawsuit. From Microsoft's vociferous legal protests, we know they don't count him as an avid supporter. Though a higher court suspended Lessig's involvement until another hearing later this month. Still, it seems that for such an important issue that will be affecting all of our lives, the volume of debate over Microsoft on campus keeps getting softer while the steady "ka-ching" of Microsoft money flowing...
...really is amazing how quickly this has happened." What's just as amazing is the idea that the Feds think $50 million will help, as Gore put it, make the Internet faster and more dependable. High tech firms have already been spending much more to figure out just that: Microsoft's R&D budget last year, for example, was a hefty $2.6 billion...