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Call It All Off (11/30/98)
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And the band played on... Despite warnings from the Judge last week, Microsoft lawyer Michael Lacovara kept the pace slow and "tedious" on "Redmond Justice" as he spent his fourth day grilling government witness Frederick Warren-Boulton in cross-examination. A CNET article paints the final day of Lacovara's seemingly endless questioning as a "painstaking repeat of the previous three days," during which he "challenged nearly every one of Warren-Boulton's assertions." Apparently the latest strategy is to bore the Judge so thoroughly that he dismisses the case out of frustration.
That all changes on Tuesday, though, when the focus of the trial will thankfully shift away from tiresome economic arguments and towards the hopefully juicier issues of whether or not Microsoft attempted to kill the Windows-threatening cross-platform software ideal by poisoning Java. According to an InfoWorld Electric story, the next witness to take the stand will be James Gosling, the Sun fellow who created Java itself. Up to now, the government's case hasn't focused very tightly on the whole Java question, so many of us are looking forward to hearing how the case builds up from here. And that preliminary injunction that Sun won against Microsoft a couple of weeks ago is almost sure to enter the picture.
By the way, Microsoft is reportedly still planning to file a motion "to have the government's case dismissed" after the government is done calling all of its witnesses. Microsoft's rationale? According to Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan, "All the witnesses that already have spoken right now show that this case can be dismissed based on the facts already presented." Hmmm, what channel are they watching? Apparently that's what one sees when one looks at the world through Redmond-colored glasses.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/30/98 episode: November 30, 1998: The iMac's popularity in retail stores enjoyed a little boost in the month of October. Meanwhile, Apple huddles with Chiat/Day to plan a Super Bowl play, and the "Redmond Justice" trial turns to the issue of Java while Microsoft still plans to ask that the case be dismissed...
Other scenes from that episode: 1182: Climbing the Ladder (11/30/98) In August, the iMac made its retail debut and hell froze over, all translucent blue and white. Once the dust had settled and the numbers were tallied up, it became clear that the iMac was the second best-selling computer for the month of August-- a fact made all the more remarkable by its mid-month introduction... 1183: Back to the Bowl (11/30/98) Early this year, Apple was poised for a powerful comeback after years of bleeding red ink and market share. Steve Jobs had retaken the helm "indefinitely" and made several bold moves to steer Apple away from an iceberg primarily of its own making...
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