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...ones. A key Microsoft tactic: adding features to Windows. Microsoft originally developed its Explorer Web browser as a separate consumer item, but then it decided to include--or bundle--the browser in Windows in 1995. The upshot was that Windows users got a free browser when they bought their PC's--making it awfully hard for Netscape to persuade them to buy its competing program...
...change how Microsoft uses Windows for leverage. The least drastic approach--and the one most likely to be upheld on appeal--would put restrictions on Microsoft's conduct. Judge Jackson could fashion a set of rules or commandments to live by: Thou shalt not sell Windows to some PC makers at lower prices than others; thou shalt not use placement on the Windows desktop as a bargaining chip...
...sign that it is relaxing its public relations onslaught. After Gates left Washington, he showed up on TV, the star of his own feel-good ad campaign. "Twenty-five years ago, my friends and I started with nothing but an idea--that we could harness the power of the PC to improve people's lives," Gates says earnestly. The closest he comes to referring to Microsoft's legal difficulties is his send-off: "The best is yet to come...
First gadget out of the gate is the Pocket PC, set to launch next week and butt heads with the Palm Pilot family of Personal Digital Assistants. Windows-based PDAs have been technically superior for some time, but the Palm outsells them all because of a Filofax-like operating system so simple even executive V.P.s...
...message that we needed to improve our software," says Pocket PC group manager Phil Holden. His new device promises better handwriting recognition than the Palm, easier-to-read text, an MP3 player, a voice recorder, a fully functional Web browser and instant access to e-mail, even for AOL users. Down the line, an experimental device called MiPad has made some promising breakthroughs in voice recognition. PDAs you talk to? Even the CEO might be able to handle that...