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There was a way to avoid the bug: by using a computer running a Linux or Apple operating system. PATRICK GUINNESS Naas, Ireland...
...suite, Microsoft would never have been able to sell such an unstable and unintuitive system. The only Microsoft innovations that I am aware of are "bloatware." When I want a user-friendly interface, I use a Mac; when I want a stable, flexible system with enormous power, I use Linux; and when I want to be reminded of just how good these other two systems are, I boot up my Windows machine. TIMO HANNAY Tokyo...
...computer maker Gateway are trying to prove him right. The online giant and the PC maker announced Tuesday that they had tapped privately held chip maker Transmeta - a good chunk is held by AOL and Gateway, actually - to use both its new Crusoe processors and an adaptation of the Linux operating system to power a new generation of Internet appliances. The strategy is part of "AOL Anywhere," and the deliciously timed announcement - don't think AOL boss Steve Case doesn't know this is Break It Up Week for Judge Jackson - was a pointed message that as the microprocessor moves...
...Microsoft's chokehold on the industry just loosened a little more," says TIME Silicon Valley writer Chris Taylor. "There are already significant competitors to Intel's chips, but this is an important step in the development of Linux as an alternative to Windows." Linux, says Taylor, is more of a backbone system - and for, say, a kitchen appliance that downloads recipes and keeps electronic tabs on the contents of your refrigerator, AOL will be better able to tailor its own interface to paper on top of Linux's OS guts. For Case and friends, that's not only better...
...intended to promote precisely such healthy genetics. The most overused example of what would happen if the Windows half of Microsoft were wrenched from the half that produces Word, Excel and Outlook is that the latter would start churning out versions of its products for rival operating system Linux. Call it enforced crossbreeding...