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A Whole New Year (1/4/99)
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Look out-- it's the return of Redmond Justice! Yes, after a brief holiday hiatus, everyone's favorite antitrust trial is back and ready for action. (Don't blame them for not broadcasting new episodes over the last couple of weeks-- in case you hadn't noticed, just about every show on the air was showing reruns over the holidays.) And things are picking up right where they left off: with a government witness testifying that Microsoft is a big, mean bully, and Microsoft countering those accusations by claiming that everyone's out to get them.
Case in point: the written testimony of William Harris, the president and CEO of Intuit. Intuit, as you probably know, makes the popular personal finance software Quicken. And if you've been following this stuff for a while, you probably also know that at one point a few years ago, Microsoft tried to buy Intuit, though they backed off when antitrust allegations starting heating up. Anyway, Harris' written testimony became public last Wednesday, according to an Industry Standard article-- and Microsoft fired a pre-emptive volley on Tuesday when they issued a court document requesting that Judge Jackson strike certain portions of Harris' testimony from the case, alleging that it amounts to no more than a "paranoid rant" against Microsoft and should be inadmissible as it includes hearsay and conjecture.
Sounds like the Microsoft legal team had a great Christmas, and they're leaping back into the fray with renewed vigor-- and that means good ratings. It's particularly entertaining to watch them formally accuse a government witness of making a "paranoid rant," when their own defense has been rife with "they're all ganging up on us" sentiment. And with luck, things are just warming up; now that court's back in session, we expect that the only rule of the game is "anything goes." Let's get ready to rumble!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/4/99 episode: January 4, 1999: So who says the Mac is a lousy game machine? Probably a lot fewer people, if the rumors about Playstation emulation pan out. Meanwhile, a P1 sighting causes consternation and uproar, and "Redmond Justice" gets back to basics...
Other scenes from that episode: 1244: Warm Up Those Thumbs (1/4/99) It's Keynote Eve, and you know what that means-- Apple Watchers the world over are tossing and turning, unable to sleep with the anticipation of lots of juicy surprises to be unveiled by Uncle Steve at noon EST tomorrow... 1245: Somebody Pinch Me (1/4/99) Sigh... Okay, we know the score. At CAUSE98, Steve Jobs flat-out stated that the "P1" consumer portable would not be introduced at this week's Macworld Expo. A bunch of news sources reported that the P1 would be unveiled anyway, and Apple was forced to break its own policy of not commenting on rumors or unannounced products just long enough to deny that the P1 was ready for prime time...
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