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The Big Premiere (10/19/98)
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Finally! After months and months of waiting, the official trial has started in the "Redmond Justice" case, kicking off the new fall litigation season. Microsoft and the Department of Justice squared off for their first day in court, and the buzz is that the cast definitely hasn't disappointed the viewers. Even superstar Bill Gates made an appearance-- or at least his name did, and since Bill pretty much consists of his name and his money, we couldn't expect a whole lot more. (Actually, given just how much money he really has, we take that back-- it is a whole lot more.) A Computer Reseller News article has the details.
Justice lawyer David Boies fired his first volley right at Gates on the first day of the trial, aiming right at Gate's pre-recorded testimony that he was not aware of any meeting between Microsoft and Netscape bigwigs that allegedly took place on June 21st of 1995. Or rather, he wasn't aware of it at the time; he claims he only found out about it when he read about it in the Wall Street Journal well after the fact. But Boies produced an email message that Gates had written the month before the infamous meeting, which supposedly reveals Gates' intention to cut a deal with Netscape so that Microsoft would retain the browser market for Windows users, while Netscape would get everyone else. Uh-oh!
Too bad Gates wasn't present to explain himself. Lawyer Stephen Houck went so far as to state on-record that Gates revealed a "lack of intestinal fortitude" for not appearing before the court in person. Ouch! And this is only Day 1. Hang onto your seats, folks, because the season's off to a great start...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/19/98 episode: October 19, 1998: The name "Mac OS X Server" is on everyone's lips, but is it due to be released any day now, or has it been cancelled outright? Meanwhile, the "Redmond Justice" premiere leads off with a bang, and something fishy's going on with Pentium-equipped iMacs showing up on CompUSA's web site...
Other scenes from that episode: 1085: Who? What? Where? (10/19/98) Ah, Rhapsody... What a long, strange trip it's been. That operating system has had such a bizarre and mutating development life, hasn't it? It was about two years ago that Apple announced that Copland, officially named Mac OS 8, had been cancelled outright, and that Apple was then searching around for an outside technology upon which to base its next-generation operating system... 1087: The "Other" iMac (10/19/98) By now most of AtAT's faithful viewers are aware of the running gag known as "Apple products in CompUSA's Sunday circulars." It's harder to find Mac hardware in one of those than it is to find an actual peanut in a modern box of Cracker Jacks...
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