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...computer sales are on a downward trend, and the home and small-office/home-office markets, both hailed as the next wave in computing, are stagnant. In addition, that wild and wacky Internet, with its open standards, could potentially topple Microsoft's apple cart, eliminating the need for a Microsoft OS on every desktop...
...tomorrow's computers--indeed, the way we live our very lives: voice and handwriting recognition. Banking and personal finance software. Real-time video and Internet television systems. Security and encryption programs. The Justice Department's view is that letting Microsoft integrate one new breakthrough after another into an OS that, at least for the foreseeable future, most of humanity will have little practical choice but to purchase will stifle innovation. It will leave no incentive for any new, and potentially better, competing products to enter the fray...
...most important changes in the new OS are the hidden upgrades under the hood. Win 98 learns which files you use most often and sorts your hard drive to open them more quickly. Another trick cuts down wasted memory, speeding programs you're working with and freeing space for those running in the background...
...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...
...bear the thought of waiting any longer for a copy, don't worry. Contrary to previous reports, Klein is not planning to keep the new Windows OS off the shelves altogther. At most, say sources close to the case, he will ask a federal court in Washington to order that Internet Explorer be extracted -- which, after this January's unbundling debacle, would not be entirely unexpected. What should worry Bill Gates is that Klein appears to have got hold of a juicy Microsoft memo with such impolitic quotes as: "We should have absolutely dominant browser share in the corporate space...