As the Apple Turns: Scene 1071: The Dog Ate It (10/12/98)

The Dog Ate It (10/12/98)

So will the season premiere of "Redmond Justice" be delayed still further? Following a couple of reschedulings already, the big courtroom showdown is set to commence on October 19th-- less than a week away. Can't you just smell the excitement? But Microsoft hasn't stopped begging for extensions-- according to ZDNet, they've just started begging for slightly more reasonable ones.

Apparently Microsoft has accepted the fact that they're just not going to get the extra six months they claim they need to prepare their case now that Apple and Sun executives are set to testify against them. (Sun veep James Gosling will likely testify that Microsoft tried to kill Java by poisoning it with Windows-only extensions, and Apple's own golden boy Avie Tevanian will probably reveal how Microsoft tried to get Apple to stop development of QuickTime.) Since Judge Jackson seems unwavering in his commitment to get this trial over with as soon as possible, Microsoft has stopped whining about needing six more months and now says they'll settle for two more weeks.

Wow, from six months to two weeks! That's, let's see, about a 92% reduction in work time. Microsoft's lawyers are apparently the best in the business if they can squeeze that much work into so little time. If Microsoft's system software engineers could do the same, maybe Windows NT 5.0 would have shipped by now...

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The above scene was taken from the 10/12/98 episode:

October 12, 1998: Sure, Apple should have great things to say about the past year's profits, but what will they say about the upgrade price of Mac OS 8.5? Meanwhile, Microsoft has seemingly given up on its quest to delay the "Redmond Justice" court date by six months, instead arguing for an extra fortnight to prepare, and if you know anyone with a WebTV, somebody's keeping a close eye on them...

Other scenes from that episode:

1070: Pay To Stay Current (10/12/98) While most of the industry is awaiting Apple's Wednesday event to hear just how Apple fared financially last quarter (have you entered the Beat the Analysts contest yet? Last chance!), we'll admit that we're not overly interested in that part of the program...
1072: Orwell Would Be Proud (10/12/98) When WebTV first hit the scene, most of us that had already been on the Internet for a number of years dismissed it as a gimmick that would likely fade into obscurity as a clever idea wrapped in a less-than-compelling implementation...

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