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Intel Conspiracy (10/19/97)
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Following the recent Yalegate scandal,, we thought we'd point you to an interesting theory over at the Macintosh Conspiracy. Basically the author feels that by giving away Wintel machines to universities in the form of grants, Intel is actually helping Apple in the long run. This theory is based on the fact that while the Mac OS won't run on Intel iron, Rhapsody will, and so eventually, those Wintel boxes may end up being Intellitoshes.

It's a nice thought, but personally, we at AtAT feel that Microsoft has their fingers in the Intel "migration grant." Why? Because the request for proposals heavily stresses the use of Windows NT. So much so, in fact, that you can basically assume that any school that wins the grant is going to be running NT as a condition of their proposal. And while there may or may not be a specified time frame during which the equipment has to run NT, remember that this is a migration grant, and that no MIS department is thrilled about migrating a whole school to a new OS once, let alone twice.

So essentially, yes, Apple gets screwed. But it's not entirely unfair (or at least it's certainly not unheard of). Remember that Apple gained much of what foothold it has on the computer world by giving away machines to schools. Turnabout is fair play, but it sure ain't pretty.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/19/97 episode:

October 19, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 99: Internet Exploder (10/19/97)   The San Jose Mercury has a nice little article in which Microsoft tries once again to downplay the seriousness of yet another Internet Explorer bug. The bug is related to MSIE 4.0's support of DHTML, and allows people to snoop around on the browser's hard disk...

  • 100: Serious Coverage (10/19/97)   Since it's Sunday and there's not much news to cover anyway, we've just gotta toot our own horn and point you to a short WIRED article called "A Mac Star Is Born As Another Burns Out," by Kaitlin Quistgaard, which they had listed on their front page...

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