Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what you will about Bill Gates--the man knows when to swallow hard and cut a deal. At first blush, the abrupt announcement last week that Microsoft had settled one round of its continuing dispute with the Federal Government--by agreeing to let PC makers remove the icon for the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer, from their machines' desktops--looked like abject capitulation. But as usual, the closer you look, the craftier the CEO's reasoning seems...
...issue was whether forcing PC vendors that license Microsoft's Windows95 to take Explorer as well constitutes product "tying"--a violation of the consent decree signed by Microsoft in 1995. After Joel Klein, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, reopened Justice's dormant suit against Microsoft, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a preliminary injunction forbidding Microsoft to engage in Explorer strong-arming. This in turn produced Microsoft's infamously petulant response: offering to sell versions of Windows that didn't have Explorer but didn't work either. After showing in court that it took less than 90 seconds...
...suddenly looked like a clever legal maneuver. The program called Explorer, Microsoft lawyers explained, no longer exists as an independent entity. Microsoft engineers have woven ever larger chunks of Explorer code into the fabric of the Windows operating system in the form of those .DLL files--miniprograms that link PC applications to the Net. The more intertwined Explorer and Windows become, the more fluidly Windows will adapt to the Web--which is why rivals are so eager to stop Microsoft from tying the two together...
...said every schoolchild should have a personal computer. I disagree. What is needed is access to and training in how to use a PC. For many, owning the hardware would only lead to more game playing. Access to computers before, during and after school hours, perhaps at public libraries or rec centers, would enrich children of every economic level and benefit society at large. But youngsters must learn how to use the hardware and software for learning and for doing research--not just for getting facts. Does this mean hardware alone won't do the job? Yep. Trained and dedicated...
...finished story is sent downstairs along computer wires. It's a nearly instantaneous process: the story disappears from the screen of the PC in the newsroom and reappears on the screen of a Mac in the PRS room, used for layout, just seconds later...