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Twiddling Our Thumbs (3/31/99)
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Pre-empted! Oh, what rotten luck; we "Redmond Justice" fans will have to endure an even longer hiatus than originally expected, as external forces continue the delay and plague our drama-addicted lives. If you've been counting down the days until mid-April, it's time to reset your clocks, because according to an IDG News Service article, the trial isn't expected back on the air until May 10th. This is a scheduling delay of such cruel proportions that it nearly surpasses that time a couple of years ago when Fox didn't broadcast the season premiere of The X-Files until November.
Judge Jackson met with representatives from both sides in the case and revealed that the trial he's moonlighting with during the "Redmond Justice" hiatus has "taken longer than he expected." In fact, it's entirely possible that we won't get our show back until well after the May 10th date, depending on how things go from here on out. We're not entirely sure how to deal with that. Oh, sure, we could start watching other courtroom dramas in the meantime, but we're willing to bet that none of them will satisfy our hunger for heavy-duty anti-trust action. After all, when was the last time you saw arguments about what constitutes a monopoly on Ally McBeal?
What's worse, as we wait out the six miserable weeks until the trial may resume, there isn't even very much dirt to dish on the settlement talks. As stated by government lead attorney David Boies, "the parties with respect to this issue are of a single mind. If there are going to be constructive settlement discussions, those discussions cannot take place in the public. As a result none of us will have any comment whatsoever about settlement discussions." Oh, come on, Dave, you're killing us! Throw us a bone! At least the Seattle Times has a little news on the subject; they report that Microsoft is "willing to discuss" the way it makes the Windows APIs available. The idea here is that Microsoft's applications (like Office) have an unfair advantage over their competition, because Microsoft is stingy about releasing programming specs for Windows applications in a timely manner. It's not as earth-shattering as an agreement to make Windows open-source or split up the company, but it's progress, nonetheless.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/31/99 episode: March 31, 1999: If you thought that unresearched Apple-bashing based on blatant misinformation was out of style, think again. Meanwhile, a Microsoft product manager assures us all that Mac Outlook is here to stay, and "Redmond Justice" is off the air until at least May 10th...
Other scenes from that episode: 1434: Just Like Old Times Again (3/31/99) Thank heaven! Here we were, thinking that the knee-jerk anti-Mac sentiment in the press had gone the way of the dinosaurs, when Information Week columnist Fred Langa proves otherwise. In his latest "Langa Letter," he claims that the press has been handling Apple with kid gloves because "no one likes to kick an underdog."... 1435: Editorial Reply (3/31/99) Ladies and Gents, in the context of discussing the dreaded Melissa virus, we at AtAT recently made some statements that were just plain wrong. Basically, we said that Macs weren't susceptible to the Melissa virus because that virus relies on Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express) to do its dirty work, and there's no Mac version of Outlook...
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