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...horrible little computer viruses. Score two if you guessed they were the Top 10 digital infections of 1999. And award a dozen bonus points if you worked out the most important and terrifying connection: like the Love Bug, every last one e-mailed its way into our PCs using Microsoft software as a carrier...
...company network "is like planting Kansas with the same grain of wheat," says Bill Cheswick, a senior researcher at Lucent. When a virus preys on the crop, nothing is left standing. The companies hit hardest by the Love Bug were closed Microsoft shops. Users who had planted their PCs with a slightly more colorful selection of seeds--even just substituting Eudora for Outlook--suffered...
...designed to address many of the primary charges brought by the government's antitrust case, while keeping the company whole. If the counteroffer is accepted, its provisions would essentially rewrite the company's disclosure and marketing policies. Among the terms of the offer: Consumers would be able to purchase PCs with Windows operating systems and without Internet Explorer; the company would not require computer makers to promote Microsoft products over other companies' offerings; and the holy grail of code would finally see the light of day: Microsoft's proposal would provide universal access to the company?s application programming interfaces...
When I got hold of one of Microsoft's new Pocket PCs, set for release this week, my first concern was for my coat pockets. The poor things get thoroughly frayed with all the portable equipment I jam into them every morning: CD player, Palm Pilot, e-mail pager, voice recorder, a novel for the train. Pocket PC promises to do the work of all of the above in a single 9-oz. shell (made variously by Compaq, H-P and Casio). Given that my local tailor charges me the equivalent of the national debt of a small country...
PALM WARS Microsoft's new Pocket PCs (described at left) will soon have more than Palm to compete with. Next month Research in Motion, whose two-way pager won accolades last year for its compact size and wireless stock-trading capability, plans to release its own $500 handheld. The Blackberry 957 will feature an organizer, address book and note-taking features. Wireless e-mail service will cost $40 a month. While the RIM will link to corporate e-mail, a monochrome screen and paucity of extras could make it a tough sell...