Word: xp
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When was the last time your PC crashed? Not to gloat, but it hasn't happened to me for weeks. That's because I installed a preview version of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, almost two months ago. And Ol' Sparky rarely seizes up now. Before XP, my computer tended to crash about three times a day, which is probably par for most hard-core users of Windows 95, 98 and ME. Most PCs crash as frequently as bumper cars. If Windows XP did nothing more than increase stability, I'd gladly pony...
...have to lose its antitrust case to be tamed by the protracted scrutiny - the company has had to be on its best behavior for the past five years while a thousand other tech flowers bloomed. By this summer, Bill Gates was introducing the company?s new operating system, Windows XP, with just the sort of concessions on bundling that the feds have been after...
...prestigious journalism award for its coverage of the AOL Time Warner merger. Last month, when the Standard played host at one of its conferences to the digital powers that be, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and rival Sun boss Scott McNealy squared off over Microsoft's controversial new Windows XP operating system...
...still slashing costs, according to the WSJ, which quoted CEO Henry Schacht as saying, "These are uncertain times. We've got on our belts, suspenders, parachutes and skyhooks." But that?s Lucent. And at Microsoft, business marches on - it?s presenting the finished version, or "gold code," of Windows XP to PC manufacturers on Friday. Along with a dead fish wrapped in newspaper...
...Winners BILL GATES Mogul wins award for his funding of vaccine development. Feds haven't weighed in on his plan to bundle those vaccines with Office XP KIM JONG IL N. Korea's leader makes state visit to Moscow in armored train. Obviously, he's worried about being mobbed by screaming teen girls ALLAN HOUSTON Basketball guard signs $100 million contract with the Knicks. During press conference he vows to live lavishly and acquire expensive cars Losers PRINCE PHILIP Queen's hubby tells 13-year-old aspiring astronaut he's too fat for space. This from a man whose...