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...sales surge as its Macintosh computers won wide acceptance for business applications. But Apple's blush has suddenly faded. Because of slowing sales, the company is expected to lay off as many as 800 of its 12,000 employees. Under pressure to revive growth, Apple President John Sculley has launched a top-management shake-up. Two weeks ago, he appointed Michael Spindler, who led the company's successful foray in Europe, as chief operating officer...
Spindler's promotion, however, has produced hard feelings among other top officers. Apple announced the resignation of Allan Loren, head of the company's U.S. division, that same day. Another potential casualty: Jean-Louis Gassee, the colorful president of Apple Products. Sculley has already forced Gassee to transfer many of his job responsibilities to Spindler...
...Glass, Apple, Motorola and Rubbermaid -- the chief executive lays down the rules and makes sure they are followed. Says Rubbermaid Chairman Stanley Gault: "Everyone has to know that shoddy work will not be tolerated. Our customers are not there to field-test our products." At Apple, says Chairman John Sculley, "quality is a religion. Anybody on the plant floor has the authority to shut down the entire line. And it happens...
...that the federal lawsuit filed by Apple Computer against Microsoft, a leading U.S. software firm, and Hewlett-Packard, a major electronics company, could be just the opening salvo in a monumental legal battle. The dispute pits two of the best-known figures in the industry against each other: John Sculley, 49, president of Apple; and Bill Gates, 32, chairman of Microsoft. It also seems calculated to derail the plans of IBM to endow its computer line with the "user friendly" features pioneered by Apple's popular Macintosh model...
...Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft all express confidence that they are not in violation of Apple's copyrights. Microsoft's Gates is especially puzzled: in 1985 he and Sculley signed a confidential agreement, made public last week, that gave Microsoft a "nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, nontransferable license" to use parts of the Macintosh display in an earlier version of Windows. Apple argues that the latest version of Windows is too Mac-like and thus violates the agreement. But when Gates spoke to Sculley two days before the suit was filed, the Apple chairman made no mention of the problem...