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The Dog Ate Them (9/3/98)
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And in "Redmond Justice," it's another setback for Microsoft, who was just ordered to turn over a slew of new evidence to the Department of Justice. According to the Seattle Times, the software giant has to fork over "key documents" that detail its relationships with mondo-huge chipmaker Intel and our own beloved Apple Computer. The government suspects that the documents may shed some light on still yet more alleged anticompetitive behavior.
The requested documents relate to any meetings between Bill Gates or veep Paul Maritz and Intel representatives between 1995 and 1997, and any meetings between a couple of undisclosed Microsoft execs and Apple reps since 1996. Microsoft is suspected of having pressured Intel and Apple not to develop certain software that would compete with Microsoft's own wares. In Apple's case, that software is QuickTime, which, thankfully, Apple went ahead and kept developing anyway.
Microsoft, unsurprisingly, is whining that the DoJ is attempting to "ambush" them by shifting the focus of the allegations just before the trial date. Accordingly, Microsoft's lawyers say they'll push for a six-month delay of the trial in order to "prepare" the requested documents. Six months to prepare some documents? They must be using Microsoft Publisher. That, or a paper shredder...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 9/3/98 episode: September 3, 1998: A new feature in Mac OS 8.5 has some Internet search engine companies gnawing their own legs off in frustration. Meanwhile, Microsoft must fork over a slew of documents that may reveal how they pressured Intel and Apple not to develop competing products, and a newfound bug in the Newton MessagePad 2100 may unearth a dark and desperate conspiracy...
Other scenes from that episode: 987: Searching for Sherlock (9/3/98) Mac OS 8.5 ("the system software formerly known as Allegro") is nearing the Golden Master phase of its development, and should hit store shelves in a about a month. All the feedback we've gotten from (cough) beta-testers indicates that it'll be a must-have upgrade, with several people saying the jump from 7.6.1 to 8.0 was actually less significant than the upcoming bump from 8.1 to 8.5... 989: What Day Is It? (9/3/98) At last, new light is being shed on a long-standing mystery: Why did Apple kill the Newton just as it was starting to live up to its promise? After all, with the advent of Newton OS 2.0, handwriting recognition really worked, and once the MessagePad 2000 rolled around, speed was no longer an issue, either...
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