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...case is a slam dunk for Microsoft. The company stubbornly clings to fixed ideas that backfired in Jackson's court and could easily backfire again. For example, Microsoft still plans to argue that it is not a monopoly--even though it controls more than 90% of the PC operating-system market. And it continues to claim that well-established antitrust laws do not apply to an industry dealing in 21st century technology. The company's almost religious zeal on these points won't help its image in the appeals court. "If you indiscriminately attack the record on too many fronts...
Peter-Charles "PC" N. Bright'01, who is a member of a predominantly black blocking group in Dunster House, says that cutting the blocking group size is particularly unjust to black students...
Completely changing the face of Intel, Grove set his assembly line to produce microprocessors instead of simple memory chips. Intel soon came out with the 386 microprocessor, which became an instant hit. And by the mid-80s, the personal computer, or PC, was becoming mainstream. In 1981 IBM made the little-publicized decision to use Intel chips in its PCs. Now, as the computer age exploded, Intel began to take off--and the rest was history...
...Microsoft's "embrace, extend and extinguish" policy when applied to real innovations like Sun's Java, but every mouse clicker has tried to zap the Office Assistant in the Office suite. Such "functionality" is what makes Microsoftware hog all your hard-disk space, so that you need a new PC every six months. The one-size-fits-all approach is like making a car that is also a boat and that rides like a helicopter. Trying to fly will result in short hops and frequent crashes! Microsoft is the big bully in the playground kicking over everybody else's board...
...alternative' project," says Taylor. "AOL's been shaping up as the anti-Microsoft for some time, and this is the latest move." Microsoft had planned a similarly themed Next Generation Windows Services forum for Thursday to tout the company's plans for what CEO Steve Ballmer calls the PC-plus era. It's been rescheduled. For Microsoft, these are uncertain times...