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...year's tuition and paid internships at Microsoft. Plus let's not forget all those Harvard graduates who went on to work for Microsoft as summer interns or full-time employees, or those current students who aspire to work in Redmond. Microsoft is one of the biggest high-tech recruiters at Harvard...
...hear the occasional anti-Microsoft grumble from students. Crimson columnist Kevin S. Davis '98 (Tech Talk, Jan. 5) called for the DOJ to break up Microsoft to end its monopoly. Likewise, on Feb. 17, Davis explained how the once high-flying Netscape was humbled by Microsoft's extremely aggressive competition in the browser market. And somebody invited unabashed Microsoft critic Larry Ellison (CEO of Oracle Corporation) to campus last fall, where he spoke to a packed Science Center auditorium...
...cares? I have RSI. There is nothing else worth writing about. In fact, I'm not even physically writing this. A senior friend of mine who has finished her thesis offered me her elite typing services, without which there would be no new Tech Talk column this week...
University Internet connections are about to get speedier. Today three high-tech firms said they were donating networking hardware and use of a zippy fiber-optic network linking 122 research universities through the Clinton administration's Next Generation Internet project. Together Qwest Communications International, Cisco Systems, and Northern Telecom will provide services and products worth an estimated $500 million over three years. Separately, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hand $50 million to 27 Internet-related research projects...
...scaling a peak -- or at least a large hill -- of rhetorical obviousness. "It really is amazing how quickly this has happened." What's just as amazing is the idea that the Feds think $50 million will help, as Gore put it, make the Internet faster and more dependable. High tech firms have already been spending much more to figure out just that: Microsoft's R&D budget last year, for example, was a hefty $2.6 billion...