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Chalk it up to longstanding Microsoft-AOL rivalry if you will. But "netpliances" like the new Gateways are a portent of precisely the kind of products that could release--faster than any judge--Redmond's iron grip on the software industry. By 2004, analysts expect this kind of cheap-and-easy surfing gadget to outsell PCs. In this market, the most unobtrusive operating system wins, and the feature-heavy heft that won the desktop wars for Microsoft becomes a liability. "Most of these devices have no need for a Windows experience," says Dan Kuznetsky, a system-software analyst at technology...
...want to get contemporary--on a geological scale, of course--it was only 49,000 years ago that an iron asteroid blasted out Arizona's three-quarter-mile-wide Meteor Crater, almost certainly killing any living creatures for hundreds of miles around. As recently as 1908, a small rocky asteroid or chunk of a comet exploded five miles above the Tunguska region of Siberia, felling trees, starting fires and killing wildlife over an area of more than 1,000 sq. mi. Had the blast, now estimated at tens of megatons, occurred over New York City or London, hundreds of thousands...
...Lane, like most of the staff, came from a career in the warehousing industry. He was working at Iron Mountain, Inc., a record management company, when Harvard resolved to build the first incarnation of what would eventually become the depository...
...first few years, Iron Mountain managed the facility, but in 1990 Harvard took the helm and the staff became Harvard staff...
...process, Lane says, also differs "because storing books is very labor-intensive: they cannot be piled up," unlike the boxes of records shelved by archival storage companies like Iron Mountain...