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Still Appealing... (1/30/98)
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And in this episode of "Redmond Justice," Microsoft files a 51-page brief appealing the harsh treatment of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who, they claim, overstepped his authority when he issued a preliminary injunction requiring the software company to stop forcing its systems vendors to ship Internet Explorer with every Windows 95 system. The Seattle Times has a few of the icky legal details.

"Is this a rerun," you ask quizzically, as your reach for your TV Guide? Why, no-- you're just witnessing the glacial speed of the court system in action. Two full weeks ago we told you that the panel for the appeal had been selected, but arguments in the appeal aren't scheduled to start for another three months. In the meantime, both Microsoft and the Department of Justice will be filing briefs, and working on Microsoft's other appeal-- it still wants Lessig removed as a special master.

"The slow hand of justice draws inexorably closer..." C'mon, be patient; justice is slow but sure. Remember how long the O.J. trial took? Er... bad example...

 
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The above scene was taken from the 1/30/98 episode:

January 30, 1998: Best Buy's Mac-eviscerated corpse is still warm as Computer City falls, its remaining Macs shipped back from whence they came. Self-induced Mac-ectomies? Or is that Apple over there in the shadows with a pair of hedge-clippers? Meanwhile, Steve Jobs readies another doozy of an announcement: is an Oracle merger in the cards? And the Microsoft-DoJ conflict lurches slowly forward...

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 405: The Exodus Continues (1/30/98)   A surprising number of AtAT viewers contacted us to say that our grouping of Computer City stores with the notoriously Mac-indifferent Best Buy chain was unfair; these viewers report that Computer City actually does a pretty good job displaying and selling Apple computers...

  • 406: "The Announcement" (1/30/98)   Buckle up tight, because there's another Steve Jobs public announcement scheduled for next week. Details are very hush-hush right now, and in fact even the date of the event is questionable; most reports have it down for Monday, while Mac OS Rumors states that it may actually be on Tuesday or later instead. As for the topic of this "State of the Apple" address, rumors differ wildly...

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