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...personal computers use the company's DOS, while an additional 3% use OS/2. One rival, Go Corp., charges that Microsoft swiped its idea for a software system that operates computers through a stylus capable of writing on the screen rather than through a keyboard. Microsoft (along with Hewlett-Packard) is also the target of a suit filed by Apple charging the company with illegally copying the "look and feel" of its Macintosh graphics software...
...ugly this country could be, like racism did," says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. "In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country," says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. "Those kinds of values are just empty. I'm really sated with gadgets, things, adornments and all that stuff." Many people were awakened by individual experience: the plight of a homeless neighbor, the collapse of a bank, a friend's job loss...
...though, what people want now is more time around home and hearth. Most parents of small children work outside the home. More than 7 million Americans hold down two or even three jobs to make ends meet. "Nobody seems to have any damn time anymore," says Winby, the Hewlett-Packard executive. "People can't manage their home, work and personal life." As a result, many working mothers (and some fathers) are giving up full-time careers to devote more time to homelife. "There is a sense of an enormous trade-off between a fast-track career and family well-being...
...combination looks like a good match. NCR, known for its electronic cash registers and automated-teller machines, is a leading maker of midsize and desktop computers. With revenues of $5.96 billion last year, it is the fifth largest U.S. computer manufacturer (after IBM, Digital Equipment, Unisys and Hewlett-Packard). What excites AT&T, however, is not NCR's market share but the potential for linking its own long-distance telephone system to NCR's worldwide network of cash registers and ATMs. That would give AT&T significant entree into the exploding business of processing transactions for retailing and financial-services...
...company. More important, his huge reorganization of the company in the mid-1980s is finally creating some cooperation between GM's far-flung divisions. One major change has taken place in its Automotive Components Group, a $33 billion operation. Because the companies in the group (examples: Harrison Radiator, Packard Electric, Inland Fisher Guide) were captives, there was traditionally no incentive for them to offer competitive prices. GM now insists that its parts makers stand on their own, which has done wonders. The Delco Maraine division has cut 70% from the cost of manufacturing antilock brake systems...