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Stay Tuned For Scenes... (5/23/99)
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Still getting psyched up for the return of "Redmond Justice"? 'Cause we sure are. If it were only going to be shown in theaters, we'd probably already be camped out for tickets by now. After all, Star Wars: Episode I may have been the culmination of sixteen long years of waiting by millions of fans, but "Redmond Justice" has been on hiatus for three months now! That's three whole months of painfully awaiting the continuation of the defining drama of a whole generation. It's been nearly unbearable.
But while the best news is that the case will officially be back in session in only nine more days, there are other reasons to cheer. For example, there's all that preparation for going back into the courtroom-- such as the out-of-court depositions of the six rebuttal witnesses slotted to take the stand. Guess what? Those depositions are public, and that's as good as "scenes from next's week's all-new Redmond Justice." Take Steve Case of America Online; he's being brought in by Microsoft as a "hostile witness," and on Friday he threw the Redmond legal team a bit of a curve. An Inter@ctive Week article has the juicy details.
Apparently Case conceded that AOL had in fact managed to bribe, cajole, threaten, or otherwise influence PC manufacturers to feature AOL's online service right on the desktops of most machines sold; Microsoft has long maintained that that fact proves that Microsoft doesn't have nearly as much monopoly control over the PC makers as people say they do. Point for Microsoft, right? Except that Case went on to explain that his company "still needed Microsoft to include AOL with every copy of Windows" so that they didn't "fall behind." It seems that once Microsoft and AOL hammered out a deal, AOL no longer needed to wheel and deal with PC makers, because those manufacturers were already required by Microsoft's iron fist to include Windows on every system-- and Windows included AOL. Sounds like a monopoly to us. See? Good things come to those who wait. And in nine days we're hoping for some real fireworks...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/23/99 episode: May 23, 1999: Gateway prepares to unveil its latest "innovation" about two years after Apple discontinued a similar design. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard is apparently a few pages behind the rest of us, as they announce their discontinuation of Mac scanner development due to market size concerns, and "Redmond Justice" warms up with an out-of-court curve ball deposition by AOL's Steve Case...
Other scenes from that episode: 1553: Been There, Done That (5/23/99) Over the last couple of years, there have been a lot of changes in the Apple world, to be sure. For one thing, what was once a raging torrent of red ink the likes of which were not previously witnessed since those elevator doors opened in Stanley Kubrick's cinematic interpretation of Stephen King's The Shining has since transformed almost magically into a steady stream of black ink... 1554: Jumping Ship Too Late (5/23/99) Want proof that Apple still has a ways to go before they're out of the woods? We admit, it can be hard to believe, given how much better things are now than they were a few years ago, but there's definitely still room for improvement...
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