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Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs. That makes Windows not just a monopoly, but a highly strategic weapon as well. It gives Microsoft an unequaled platform from which to launch new products, and it makes it easy for Gates to intimidate other tech companies into doing things Microsoft's way. Software writers, chipmakers and dotcom companies all have a lot to lose if they don't stay on Microsoft's good side...
...rivalry if you will. But "netpliances" like the new Gateways are a portent of precisely the kind of products that could release--faster than any judge--Redmond's iron grip on the software industry. By 2004, analysts expect this kind of cheap-and-easy surfing gadget to outsell PCs. In this market, the most unobtrusive operating system wins, and the feature-heavy heft that won the desktop wars for Microsoft becomes a liability. "Most of these devices have no need for a Windows experience," says Dan Kuznetsky, a system-software analyst at technology firm IDC. "Who needs a week-long...
...landslide 26. Virginia Governor who okayed creation of an Internet transaction code 28. Apples, pears and such 31. Big name in Internet software 34. Demo unit, for short 35. Like Anderson in '80: Abbr. 36. __Corell, U.N. team leader in Cambodia 38. Roofer's gunk 39. It's offering PCs to its employees 41. Code-cracking org. 42. Sacrificial sites 44. "But I am not the sea nor the __": Whitman 46. Nurse, as a drink 47. Gore called Bush's tax plan "__ oil" 48. Cloister sisters 49. Ask __ Girl (1959 MacLaine film...
...announced plans to buy Time Warner (which owns this magazine, many cable outlets and possibly a small part of your soul). As if guys like Hawke running around with video cameras weren't scary enough, now they had to worry about those thick, broadband cables carrying big entertainment to PCs on demand. Even more threatening is the probability that AOL, by far the biggest Internet player that sends monthly bills to its customers, will charge micro fees to use the Web to watch movies or listen to music. That means it will be able to do something that many have...
Some people melt over wafer-thin notebook PCs. Others get finger twitches thinking about their next death match in Quake III. But what really brings out the techno-geek in me is a killer search engine that finds just what I'm looking for, and fast. That's why Google has made it to the top of my bookmark file. The engine was developed by two Stanford Ph.D. students and named after the mathematical term googol, which stands for 10[100th power]. The great thing about Google is that it works...