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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the company rolled out Windows CE, a relative of the company's ubiquitous operating system now found on more than 90% of personal computers. Microsoft then signed up 10 manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version of a similar unit. "Everybody is in market-development mode at the moment,'' says Dilip Mistry, Windows CE manager for Microsoft's British subsidiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Flying Phones | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...originally supposed to open in March 1999. Meanwhile, DreamWorks planned to make its animated debut in November with The Prince of Egypt--the story of Moses, a project very dear to Katzenberg's heart. Katzenberg is hoping his Bible epic will be enough of a critical and commercial success to prove he actually did play a crucial role in the making of such Disney animated hits as Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King--all released while he ran the Disney roost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle Of The Bugs | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...premiere show on NBC and the best series on television." Many people agree with him. Earlier this month, Frasier won its fifth consecutive Emmy, a record. It has continually earned praise over the years for being intelligent and literate, and it has been a perennial ratings success, always finishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Five Cheers for Frasier | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...weird how success affects people. Most of them turn into jerks. But Sosa, 29, got his paycheck and relaxed. He let us see the generous, fun and classy person he is. And he performed. With a league-leading 154 RBIs, a .309 average and the most home runs of any other major leaguer, except Mark McGwire (he had 63 to McGwire's 64 at week's end), has ever hit, Sosa has had one of the best offensive years of any other player, any other time. Most sportswriters think that he'll swipe the MVP award from McGwire and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Slam | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

This week's visit of President MOHAMMED KHATAMI to the U.N. in New York City should provide another example of how the moderate former philosophy professor is trying to open Iran to the world. Too bad he is not having more success opening Iran to itself. Last week Khatami's conservative opponents in the judiciary shut down Tous, the most remarkable newspaper to appear in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Regarded as the most tangible result of Khatami's pledge of greater freedom, the seven-month-old daily attracted a readership of 300,000 but infuriated hard-liners with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Supreme Leader Cracks Down on Newspaper | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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