Word: startup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they had received subpoenas to cooperate with an investigation into anticompetitive practices. At issue: Microsoft plans to "bundle" its Microsoft Network with its new Windows 95 software in August -- a move that could quickly put all rivals at an unfair disadvantage by providing 20 million Windows users with the startup kit for the new online software.TIME senior technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWittsays the new investigation indicates that Justice is dead serious about preventing that outcome. "Microsoft argues that the government should not get involved. By stepping up the competitive pressure, Microsoft could help lower prices." By providing Microsoft Network...
Fueling the debate-and industry gossip mills-are fresh details of Microsoft's hard-nosed business dealings. In a new book called Startup (Houghton Mifflin; $22.95), for example, GO Corp. founder Jerry Kaplan tells how in 1989 his company, hoping to persuade Microsoft to write some software for GO's pen-based computer system, gave Gates and his developers a demonstration of how it worked. Microsoft said it wasn't interested. But two years later, the company unveiled a competing system called Pen Windows that bore an uncanny resemblance to GO's design, even using the same "gestures" to insert...
...Normally we aim for Columbus Day weekend for startup, but sometimes weather conditions say when we start," said Andrew J. Culhane, building operations supervisor...
...second half of the registration period we actually moved about half of the freshman class," Herschbach said. "It's inevitable that we would have some startup problems in a transition like this...
...foundation will provide "startup money" to begin statewide public interest law centers, Singer said. Once these centers are started, organizers hope they will be funded by state bar associations and run by community members...