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Notebook: Sep. 17, 2001

WINNERS & LOSERS [WINNERS] BILL GATES Gov't won't carve up Microsoft. Company doesn't even gloat. A kinder, gentler monopoly? RICHARD WILLIAMS Mercurial tennis...

Notebook: Sep. 3, 2001

WINNERS & LOSERS [WINNERS] COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY Meticulous new Microsoft judge goes from anonymity to Bill Gates' best pal ELIZABETH DOLE Fave for Helms'...

Tech Talk: Cooking Up a Storm

Monday, May. 14, 2001 "Open source." Perhaps you've seen the term bandied about recently and wondered what it meant. More useless tech jargon, you no doubt...

Why These Guys Are Dead Wrong

It must be nice being a billionaire. You get your own jet. You don't have to work. The maitre d' always has a table for you. Better yet, you can afford the moral...

Notebook: May 7, 2001

WINNERS & LOSERS [WINNERS] DENNIS TITO Buys trip to space station despite U.S. objections. A lot safer than the Navy's "rent-a-sub" program BILL GATES Press...

Is Microsoft Free to Go?

Even though the Justice Department’s trustbusters decided Thursday to abandon their effort to break up Microsoft in court, drop its "bundling" investigations and...

CES Watch 2001

BRAND X Bill Gates wants you to hold off buying that PlayStation2. Microsoft's Xbox game console won't arrive for 10 months, but developers are already promising...

Washington: One More Digital Divide

Maria Cantwell is not your typical Internet whiz kid. At 42, she's more like an Internet whiz-kid's high school principal. Sit down to interview her, and you get...

"Microsoft Enjoys Monopoly Power..."

It was 4:30 p.m. Friday when an Antitrust Division lawyer called from the courthouse, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Microsoft decision in his hands. What...

Microsoft Enjoys Monopoly Power...

It was 4:30 p.m. Friday when an Antitrust Division lawyer called from the courthouse, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Microsoft decision in his hands. "What...

In Brief: Nov. 27, 2000

'TIS THE SEASON: TAXES AND GIVING O.K., so you're not Bill Gates, and you don't have a charity named after you. But you could start a "poor man's foundation."...

Giving Billions Isn't Easy: Bill and Melinda Gates

Patty Stonesifer, 43, may have the best job in the world. What she does every day as chairwoman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is think about how to...

Why Microsoft Crashed

When I was covering the microsoft antitrust trial, the company invited me to have breakfast with its legal team. We covered all the basics: whether Microsoft...

Where Do Today's Hackers Want to Go? Microsoft

The fallout from last week's hack attack on Microsoft just gets more embarrassing for BILL GATES & Co., especially given the part played by the company's...

Books: Why Microsoft Crashed

When I was covering the Microsoft antitrust trial, the company invited me to have breakfast with its legal team. We covered all the basics: whether Microsoft was...

Notebook: Oct. 9, 2000

WINNERS & LOSERS [WINNERS] RULON GARDNER Wrestler upsets Russian in best Olympic moment. Whom will he endorse for President? BILL GATES High court rejects fast...