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...dealers, find a free copy of Boston Computer Currents magazine to compare prices. If you decide to go with one of these dealers, make sure you know what you want. Often these stores cut costs by using non-brand name parts. -Baratunde R. Thurston '99 is the Claverly Hall User Assistant for HASCS and editor-in-chief of the 10th edition of the Computers@Harvard, published by the Harvard Computer Society. He also really likes computers...
Jobs gave up. Just a little help, he said in Chicago of the alliance with Microsoft to help save Apple. But Steve, you know that once you put a virus-carrying disc in the A drive, your machine won't be the same. Does any Mac user want to get a Bill Gates virus? NICOLA DESIDERIO Chieti, Italy...
Privacy advocates like Grouf--as well as the two companies that control the online browser market, Microsoft and Netscape--say the answer to the cookie monster is something they call the Open Profiling Standard. The idea is to allow the computer user to create an electronic "passport" that identifies him to online marketers without revealing his name. The user tailors the passport to his own interests, so if he is passionate about fly-fishing and is cruising through L.L. Bean's Website, the passport will steer the electronic-catalog copy toward fishing gear instead of, say, Rollerblades...
...tale of Steve Jobs has long been a Silicon Valley legend. It was Jobs who, as a long-haired and barefoot twentysomething, set in motion the revolution called the personal computer by making it "user friendly" to the masses. Jobs didn't invent the machine; his partner Steve Wozniak was the real engineer. But Jobs understood before anyone else the key to transforming the computer from a geek's expensive toy into a household appliance. Instead of writing commands in computerese, Macintosh owners used a mouse to point and click on easily identifiable icons on the screen--a trash...
...that's just the most obvious illustration of Gates' unequaled strategic genius. His $150 million has also won him several subtler victories. Saving the Mac maintains his $300 million share of the 20 million-strong Mac-user base while increasing Apple's reliance on Microsoft software to keep the public hooked on its computers. The deal, says Mike Homer, a Netscape executive vice president, "puts the whole application base in Microsoft's hands. And if they control that, they control the Macintosh...