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Funny what the threat of a government-sponsored breakup will do to whet a company's appetite for compromise. According to Sunday?s Washington Post, Microsoft has drafted a plan designed to address many of the primary charges brought by the government's antitrust case, while keeping the company whole. If the counteroffer is accepted, its provisions would essentially rewrite the company's disclosure and marketing policies. Among the terms of the offer: Consumers would be able to purchase PCs with Windows operating systems and without Internet Explorer; the company would not require computer makers to promote Microsoft products over...
...dining halls this week have been collected, counted, recounted and have tallied up to shocking results. indy alumni coordinator led all comers in the race for most sexual activity in Canaday basement, as a midnight rush to the polls secured the landslide victory. but even as surveys and statistics whet our appetites for pie charts and the like, what fm really craves is a taste of just the tiniest piece of that...
Gates, as it turned out last Friday, was well pleased with his buffet. He was able to waft the polished X-boxes under the noses of games developers at a conference in San Jose, Calif., just long enough to whet their appetites. Not that he needs to be worried about getting anyone's attention. These X-boxes are prototypes, two generations and 18 months away from anything you might see on store shelves. But when the world's largest software company, currently duking it out with the government for its very survival, starts building a video-games console, notice will...
...would Apple whet the appetite of millions of budding armchair directors, only to require a massive infusion of cash and equipment just when things start to get interesting? Maybe Jobs can devise some midrange software that will at least let you run searches on your clip file. In the meantime, I'm ready to start boring my friends and family with Carnival 2000--scaled down, less like a music video, but finished nonetheless. Let's hope those extras don't start demanding back...
...There's no beating the system at Abercrombie. Day after day, a manager puts the same CD on repeat and cranks it to a set ear-blasting store volume. Nationwide, Abercrombie plays pumping bass to whet customers' appetites for flared khakis. "After a while you don't notice [the volume]," says MIT senior Hans Yang, an employee at the Harvard Square branch. "But the music is supposed to make us seem like we are all having fun," he adds, swiveling his head back and forth to look for shoplifters. Yang does not seem to be having much fun, however...