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Well, don't start your dig just yet. PCs may be great for solitary pursuits, composing Powerpoint presentations or writing. But as long as co-workers need to brainstorm, bat around ideas and just plain gossip, they will always return to the water cooler, choosing a little face-to-face time over e-mail and the Web. Says Christine Albertini, vice president of advanced concepts at office-furniture maker Steelcase: "The basic nature of work is social...
...most damaging and the most widespread virus outbreak ever." Symantec's Moritz is more cautious, conceding that it is No. 1 in numbers and rate of spread, but for sheer destructiveness he prefers last year's Explore.Zip, an especially vindictive virus designed to destroy Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint files...
...such marketplace realities have meant little to Klein and the state attorneys general, whose relations with one another have been contentious from the get-go. Some states first sought to charge that Microsoft's Office suite of programs--which include such software mainstays as Word, Excel and PowerPoint--has a monopoly of its own. But by April 1, a Saturday, all the trustbusters' positions were beginning to converge. That's when mediation talks between Microsoft and the prosecutors broke down, a development Klein learned about while working on the weekend in his third-floor office at Justice. That day, Klein...
...Virtual Business class, where all the students wore white button-down shirts, I was greeted at the door by an "executive assistant" who asked me to sign her guest book. Her CEO, "Ms. Moronta," handed me her business card and led me through a PowerPoint demonstration of her virtual DVD business. Clocks showed the times in New York City, Tokyo, Bakersfield, Calif., and Nuremberg, Germany. I have never been so frightened in my life...
...spend 18 hours a day entering numbers into spreadsheets. They "analyze data" and "run regressions." Consultants "work in teams" and "brainstorm." They figure out how to "streamline" and "trim the fat." "Let's get back to basics," they might say, pointing to a 3-D pie chart on their PowerPoint presentation. It was as though the Starr report had just come out and everyone was smoking cigars. And I couldn't think of a single sarcastic thing...