Word: outlook
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Your feature on Builders and Titans was about as international as the World Series (baseball, for you non-Americans). That narrow viewpoint was surprising in a magazine that normally provides a global outlook from an American perspective. If TIME aspires to be a truly international publication, it must look beyond the shores of the U.S. GRAHAM ROBERTS Singapore...
...version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer comes with an e-mail product, Outlook Express, that automatically sorts out junk mail and puts in the trash. Trouble is, the filter sometimes mistakes legitimate correspondence for spam, and that's what's been happening to the digital Christmas cards that people have been sending via Blue Mountain. Microsoft was ordered to provide Blue Mountain by Tuesday with whatever information it needed to bypass the overzealous filter -- which, ironically, trashes Microsoft e-cards too -- and must post warnings on the product alerting users to the potential for lost mail. Microsoft had tried...
...allocation to Japan two months ago and put allocations back into South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore." Though many economists are dubious about how soon and how strongly Japan can recover from a long period of stagnation and now recession, Sinai pronounces himself "somewhat positive" on the outlook, at least for financial markets, which tend to improve before economies...
...recovering, and some currencies are rising in value after a wild spiral of devaluations. Moreover, most Asian countries are beginning banking reforms, while governments are spending more to stimulate their economies. A worldwide lowering of interest rates, led by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, has helped support an improved outlook...
...browser, evening the score on that point. It one-upped Netscape, though, by vastly improving the way the browser handles search, bookmarking and history. Both browsers work equally well in Windows, by the way. And both include free mail programs: Netscape comes with Messenger and Microsoft gives away Outlook Express, which has been upgraded. Again, I prefer Microsoft's offering: Outlook looks snappier and offers a great way to handle junk mail. Microsoft's beta, however, is no Ally McBeal: it takes up 15.4 megabytes just for the browser; 49 megs if you install the mailer and other...