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Seton and his running mate, Kamil E. Redmond '00, greeted students in the fly-by lunch line in Loker Commons yesterday...
...Windows. To head off that threat, Microsoft licensed Java from Sun in 1995 and used it to create its own "polluted"--or incompatible--version, which discouraged software developers from using the original Sun program. Sun cried breach of contract, and a lawsuit followed. Now Judge Ronald Whyte has handed Redmond a February deadline to stop shipping Java technology--currently included in Windows 98, Internet Explorer and even the humble Microsoft Office suite--without first getting Sun's seal of approval...
...this the way Redmond's market dominance ends--not with an antitrust bang but a contractually negligent whimper? Such an outcome would be favorable to the start-ups of Silicon Valley, where the specter of federal regulation is just as terrible as that of Microsoft. "This is more important than the antitrust case," says Mark Radcliffe, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney for tech firms. "People are looking for something that doesn't have the taint of government intrusion, and this plays on their desire to let technology solve the problem...
...tech titans of Redmond, Wash., didn't have enough trouble, counterfeit copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 have landed in the U.S. The company has this warning: check your disc. True copies have a hologram near the hole in the middle that flips from "genuine" to "Microsoft," plus a heat-sensitive thread woven into the certificate of authenticity. A fake might work, but if it malfunctions, tech support won't be able to do a thing...
WASHINGTON: It's alive! The government's antitrust case against Microsoft lumbers on Wednesday, despite the stake driven into its heart by the $4.2 billion deal between Netscape, America Online and Sun Microsystems. Redmond's legal team tried its best to kill the beast Tuesday, arguing that the formation of what was effectively a two-party system in the software industry made government regulation irrelevant. But the beast refused to die. "If I'm counting it right, [that's] the sixth time during the trial that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead," said chief Justice Department attorney David...