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...engineering: the tech job fair. In an attention-grabbing booth on one side of the gym at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recruiters from Microsoft make work for the software giant seem like a highly paid extension of college life: a video shows young men and women at the Redmond, Wash., headquarters playing with Nerf toys between all-night bouts of writing code. Nearby, the Boeing booth touts its work on the space station. But Dongxia (pronounced doong-shee-ah), 32, like many of the 500 techies mobbing the job fair, is soon drawn across the gym to a navy...
...Microsoft cafeteria in Redmond, Wash., the government's antitrust suit against the company is frequently discussed among people who (like me) have no inside knowledge of what is actually going on in the negotiations. Slate, the online magazine I edit, is owned by Microsoft, so discount anything I say accordingly as you please. But having lived and worked among them for four years, I have found the attitude of folks inside the company pretty interesting, and maybe you will too. Not people like Bill Gates, or those who write the legal briefs and press releases, but the ordinary software developer...
...government to hobble a competitor. Silicon Valley also is full of characters--such as Larry Ellison of Oracle and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems--who do fit the stereotype of obnoxious megalomaniac so often and unfairly applied to Bill Gates. Or, again, so it seems to many in Redmond...
...high-tech industry, out just yet. While the government is now technically compelled to take action that will change Microsoft's business - many think Jackson will seek to break the firm into a bunch of "Baby Bills" when he produces his "remedy" in August - Bill Gates and his Redmond buddies are widely expected to appeal the decision, a process that could drag on for years. In the meantime, the whole nature of the computer-sofware-Internet business will have changed...
...dead. What went wrong? It's hard to tell. Some accounts say that Microsoft balked at the DOJ's demand that it unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows, while other sources insist that Gates & Co. were perfectly willing to do so. And quite a few fingers (especially ones based in Redmond) are pointing at the attorneys general of the 19 states riding shotgun on the federal antitrust suit, charging that they were making more demands than the DOJ wanted, or that Microsoft was willing to accept...