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...student driven? It depends on the individual student's desire to learn? No, no, no! Everybody knows that success in school comes from megamillion-dollar tax levies, self-esteem classes, antidrug programs, smaller class sizes and more school psychologists and counselors. Persistence and hard work indeed! BEVERLEY SEITER Redmond, Wash...
...easy-talking, homily-spinning Barksdale--think of him as the anti-Gates--is the DOJ's dream witness and Redmond's biggest nightmare. His blarney is irresistible. Too bad there's no jury to hear...
...software giant sweet-talked it into an exclusive (and illegal) deal, where AOL would get a cute launch button on the Windows desktop -- if it sold its service-provider soul exclusively to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape would be provided only if users asked for it ?- a deal that Redmond enforced by playing Big Brother. "Microsoft has carefully monitored references to Navigator and Netscape on the AOL service," said AOL senior vice president David Colborn, the government's latest witness Wednesday...
...Microsoft attorney John Warden shot back with a now-familiar defense: Explorer is a better product. Isn't that why we won the contract? But Colburn insisted it was realpolitik, not quality, that drove them into bed with Microsoft. Poor old Apple, meanwhile, claimed rougher treatment at Redmond's hands before its own Explorer deal: Microsoft "threatened to abandon the Mac," according to a memo from Apple CFO Fred Anderson unveiled in court Tuesday. All in all, it's not the best prologue Microsoft could have hoped for in advance of Bill Gates's taped testimony -- which will be shown...
WASHINGTON: Government lawyers handed Redmond a last-minute reprieve late Tuesday: They postponed a showing of Bill Gates?s prerecorded testimony until further notice. Microsoft?s lawyers complained that the videotape constituted an extra witness, violating an agreement to call no more than 12. And that was about the most successful argument the software giant could manage on another very tough day in antitrust court. The worst blow came when the feds displayed a mail from Dan Rosen -? who represented Microsoft at that crucial June 1995 meeting with Netscape. His priority, Rosen wrote, was to "establish Microsoft ownership...