Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates: The key thing the ruling says is that Microsoft, by creating better Internet support [i.e., embedding a browser into Windows], made it tougher for the guy [Netscape] who was competing with us. In fact, that's exactly what we're supposed to do on behalf of consumers...
Gates: This question is a little bit of a repeat of what was in front of the courts last year. There was the question in the case of Windows 95 whether it was O.K. for us to add Internet support into that. Judge Jackson entered a preliminary injunction, and the appeals court couldn't have been more black-and-white in rejecting everything he had done there. [The appeals judges] went out of the way to state the general principle that the courts won't be involved in software design...
Gates: Yes. The new things we're planning for Windows, whether it's reading handwriting or natural language [voice recognition], those are exactly the type of things that would be blocked under the logic that says that our putting Internet support into Windows was something we should not have had the freedom...
...apartments and increased responsibility. Individuals are assigned to treatment teams composed of psychiatric professionals and "life-skills" specialists, who see them as often as three times a day or as seldom as once a month, depending on need. These teams monitor medication and offer both practical help and psychological support in getting former patients back into the working world...
...build support around the country, Microsoft brought on staff a veteran of Direct Impact, a D.C.-area firm whose clients have included the tobacco industry, managed-care companies and others who want "grass-roots" responses generated on issues. Another addition: Tom Synhorst, a political operative and phone-bank virtuoso who does projects for George W. Bush. And there's evidence of Microsoft's courting business and political players at the smallest levels. In September, senior vice president Craig Mundie spoke to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chamber of Commerce, drawing an overflow crowd of about 900. Last month former Republican National...