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Standoff at Sundown (5/14/98)
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Oooooh, can'tcha just feel the dramatic tension? On the eve of the scheduled ship date of Windows 98 to manufacturers, the other shoe has finally dropped; Windows 98 is officially going to be late, if only for even just a day. Microsoft has agreed to hold off shipping its new OS until Monday; in exchange, the Department of Justice and the twenty state attorneys general currently hot for Microsoft's blood will delay filing any antitrust lawsuits. It's negotiation time in this episode of Redmond Justice; both sides have agreed not to move until everyone's had a chance to discuss things. Read all about it in the San Jose Mercury News.
The story making the rounds is that Microsoft's lawyers are offering "major concessions" regarding the company's allegedly anticompetitive behavior. No one's talking about exactly what those concessions would be, so whether they are major enough to avoid the lawsuits is entirely a matter of speculation. This is a pretty common strategy on Microsoft's part, though; there's a nice little recap of their previously successful "last-minute concessions" strategy in an Associated Press story. Hey, it makes sense-- if you're making money, why change until it's absolutely necessary? (Unless you have a conscience, or something.)
We foresee a very long and thorny weekend for the negotiators from both sides. Suppose there's any chance they can hammer out an agreement by close of business tomorrow, so they can spend the weekend doing something fun?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/14/98 episode: May 14, 1998: Microsoft and the U.S. government lay down their arms and try to reach a peaceful settlement. Meanwhile, MacWEEK goes chasing after Wintel money, and Apple pursues that splefty set of 3D API's known as OpenGL...
Other scenes from that episode: 704: Graft and Scandal (5/14/98) Another one bites the dust. MacWEEK, the only major weekly Macintosh-centric publication, has announced that in August, it's changing its name to EMedia Weekly and will begin to cover Windows and Unix systems as well as Macs (even more so than now, we assume)... 705: Virtual Hostage Swap (5/14/98) Speaking of the Knife, his latest bit of info really piques our interest. It would appear that Apple has arranged for a little trade with SGI, those wacky purveyors of Unix workstations who have a pretty nice grip on the high-end graphics industry...
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