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You Want It When? (5/8/98)
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If the Department of Justice is planning on moving against Windows 98, they've only got a few more days before the software is released to manufacturers. Of course, there's still the matter of that preliminary injunction handed down last December, which requires that Microsoft make available a version of Windows 95 without Internet Explorer. And Microsoft just filed a motion requesting that the injunction, which includes a sentence that affects "successor versions" of Windows 95, be "stayed" so as not to affect Windows 98. Read about it in Computer Reseller News.
The DoJ, of course, is having none of it. The injunction was filed five whole months ago, they say, so why is Microsoft filing a motion less than a week before they plan to release the software to manufacturers? To quote their response, "Microsoft's attempt to use exigent circumstances entirely of its own making as an excuse for bypassing the disctrict court should not be condoned." Of course, this whole "we didn't understand exactly what you meant" strategy is nothing new from Microsoft. You'll recall, of course, when they "removed" Internet Explorer by rendering the whole Windows 95 operating system unbootable.
Will the petty squabbling never cease? Good lord, we hope not. ;-)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/8/98 episode: May 8, 1998: The iMac floppy issue has become largely moot, thanks to a SuperDisk coming to save the day. Meanwhile, Apple's new Powerbooks rake in $2 million in sales in a single day via the Apple Store, and Microsoft plays the "we didn't understand" game with the DoJ once again...
Other scenes from that episode: 685: The Last Floppy Word (5/8/98) It's amazing how much dust you can kick up by announcing a home computer without a floppy drive, isn't it? On the one side you've got the folks who say "good riddance" to a slow, low-capacity, often unreliable peripheral that is thoroughly unsuited to computing tasks today; on the other are the ones who make the solid point that emailing attachments and relying on a network connection for transfer simply isn't a viable replacement yet, especially within the consumer market at which the iMac is aimed... 686: Red-Headed Stepchild (5/8/98) Meanwhile, the introduction of the new Powerbook G3's, affectionately known by their code names of Wall Street and Main Street, appears to have been upstaged by the surprise unveiling of the iMac. We can only imagine how the Powerbook team at Apple must feel, to see the sleek black product of years of toil finally come to completion, only to have it overshadowed by a consumer Mac that Mac the Knife refers to as looking like "an oversized Fisher-Price bath toy--" especially since the Powerbooks are available now, and the iMac is still 90 days away...
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