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...betting that owning all the Sunday-night and Monday-night games will make Disney a more powerful viewing and advertising force. The new contract will allow for additional 30-second spots during the games. And since ABC owns and operates 10 stations (O&Os, in the jargon) it can recoup some of its money in big markets like Chicago...
...perfect opportunity for Apple to salvage its tired old Newton handheld operating system, a surprisingly powerful technology for word processing and Web browsing. But Apple has made two mistakes: it never managed to make Newtons' handwriting recognition anything less than laughable, and it couldn't fit the OS into a box as small as 3Com's wildly successful PalmPilot...
...wonderful it would be if Microsoft Windows, the Mac OS and even UNIX operating systems could all run on the same PowerPC platform. Users could pick and choose from the best of the rich treasure of software applications and tools that are now in separate operating-system camps. BRIAN BLACKMORE Millburn...
...turf is the Web; and the enemy is Netscape, whose browser market share still dwarfs Microsoft's. The Apple deal makes Microsoft's Internet Explorer the default browser for all future Macs, yet another coup for Gates, who is painfully aware what a threat the Web poses to the OS standards whose implacable rigidity led to Microsoft's rise in the first place. Gates spent the Web's first two years pretending it didn't matter and the next two frantically refocusing his company on the Net and snapping up anything that might further that goal (see chart...
...direst threat to Windows hegemony may be Java, the Web-minded programming language created at Sun Microsystems in the early '90s. Java's great strength is its "portability"; in a Java-centric future, developers could write programs not for one OS at a time but for the Java Virtual Machine, the software that could run numerous next-wave computers: PCs, smart cell phones, personal digital assistants, stripped-down network computers and so on. "What should Apple do next?" asks Sun CEO and Java evangelist Scott McNealy. "Put 100% energy behind Java. Innovate, compete and add value. That's so obvious...