Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Proof of that came on Aug. 13, when Microsoft unveiled Explorer 3.0, the newest version of its Web-browsing software. The 8-megabyte behemoth matched Netscape's franchise browser, Navigator, feature for feature, and at a much better price--free. Available over the Web, the browser notched a million downloads in its first week. Netscape stockholders voted with their feet: by late August, Netscape stock had shed half its value from a December high, while Microsoft shares approached record levels. And Gates swore the best was yet to come...
...would be no more than too-little, too-late Internet technology, were silenced by the program's sheer undeniable quality. The browser's slick interface drew on Microsoft's years of consumer-products research. And though there were flaws--it has several prominent security holes, and no Macintosh version is in sight--3.0 had brightly colored, easy-to-use buttons, was cleverly designed and ran smoothly with Windows 95. In short, the thing looked like a high-grade consumer product...
...browser is fully integrated with the computer desktop. Users will turn on their computers and be presented not with an ungainly collection of files and folders but with a lush desktop that includes the latest news, instant access to content from across the Web, and a specialized version of the browser that looks at both local files and data from around the Web. Explorer 4.0, when it ships, will complete the unification of the computer and the Web. It will also make Explorer 3.0, the hot technology of the moment, obsolete...
...marriage as "trendy moral relativism," Coats can easily justify denying certain citizens fundamental rights available to all other Americans. It is simple and safe to curtail a group's rights if that group is reduced to a bunch of flighty deviants who abide by a parallel and distinct version of morality. Such tactics have been used for centuries, to a far more extreme degree by slave-owners and Nazis. Both oppressor groups justified their persecution and slaughtering by reducing their respective objects of hatred to the sub-human...
...capitalizing on something evil," says Steven Herb, head of the Education Library at Pennsylvania State University. But the authors say people's initial horror is soon overcome. "At first people's mouths drop open," says Lester. "They say, 'Have you lost your mind?' But after they read the new version, they love it." Perhaps even Sambo deserves a second chance...