As the Apple Turns: Scene 1001: The Eternal Constants (9/9/98)

The Eternal Constants (9/9/98)

Three things in this life are inevitable: death, taxes, and Microsoft trying to get its antitrust case dismissed. As the trial date draws ever nearer, Microsoft has stepped up its attempts to convince Judge Jackson to throw the case out of court. A Wired article follows the neverending story.

Microsoft's latest move is to try to use Netscape's own words against the government. Microsoft managed to dig up a letter that Netscape sent to Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein which stated that Netscape was "unable" to identify files that could be deleted from Windows 98 that would remove Internet Explorer without messing with the operating system. It was their "understanding" that Windows 98 "as presently configured" tied the browser so tightly to the core OS as to make their separation nearly impossible. Of course, given that the letter was written early last March before Windows 98 actually shipped, it's possible that Netscape was making presumptions based on the widespread descriptions of what Windows 98 would end up being. We'll see what the judge thinks.

Judge Jackson will hear oral arguments on this latest motion for dismissal this Friday. With any luck at all, Microsoft's attempts to get "Redmond Justice" cancelled before its scheduled season premiere in two weeks will fall on deaf ears. We need our courtroom drama!

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The above scene was taken from the 9/9/98 episode:

September 9, 1998: The iMac may soon be crowned the best-selling computer of all time, if trends continue. Meanwhile, Apple claims that rumors of Em@iler's death are greatly exaggerated, and Microsoft tries once again to get its antitrust case thrown out of court...

Other scenes from that episode:

999: We Have a Winner (9/9/98) Not that it's any particular surprise, but it looks like the iMac may have been the top-selling retail computer for the entire month of August. PC Data, a market research firm that tracks such things, hasn't totaled up the final numbers yet, but so far, the iMac appears to have run away with the prize...
1000: Greatly Exaggerated (9/9/98) Despite the fact that Claris is dead (at least from a non-FileMaker perspective), Claris Em@iler lives on-- or so Apple would have us believe. Recently, the airwaves have been abuzz with news of the application's untimely demise, confirmed by the remarks of an Apple executive who stated that Apple had "officially" killed off the product...

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