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December 04, 1995
The Talk of the Town
- Of Bytes and Bites [ABSTRACT]
- Signed Talk story about Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold, 36, a group vice-president at Microsoft (and CEO Bill Gates's right-hand nerd and his co-author on their new book, "The Road Ahead"), isn't worrying about how to stay a step ahead of the Internet. He spends a good deal of…
April 03, 1995
Comment
- DOS Miserables [ABSTRACT]
- Signed Comment about books and cathedrals and computers. This spring, the computer industry's efforts are reaching a culmination of sorts. Microsoft, Bill Gates's giant corporation, is to bring out a program package called Microsoft Bob, designed by Gates's wife, Melinda French and intended to render computer technology available even to…
July 27, 1998
Shouts & Murmurs
- The Sledgehammer: How It Works [ABSTRACT]
- SHOUTS & MURMURS instructions on the use of the sledgehammer, for those with sledgehammer anxiety, including terms (“thunk,” “stuff,” “wang,” “smithereens”), models, safety tips from the National Sledgehammer and Broken Toe Society, and quotes from a sledgehammer enthusiast and a manufacturer who…
November 26, 2001
The Financial Page
- The Paranoia Principle
- Signed financial page talk story about Microsoft’s new gaming console, the Xbox... Prior to the Xbox, Microsoft had never really built anything before... Software is a better business than hardware. A new copy of Windows XP Professional sells for the exact same price as a new Xbox console. The difference…
May 13, 1996
Annals of Communications
- THE REEDUCATION OF MICHAEL KINSLEY [ABSTRACT]
- ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS about Michael Kinsley's attempt to create an on-line magazine, called "Slate", for Microsoft Corporation... In Washington, Kinsley was celebrated as an editor and writer, and he had won fame and large lecture fees as the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire."... Tells about the Microsoft campus in…
July 17, 2000
The Back Page
- [The Back Page] [ABSTRACT]
- THE BACK PAGE color spread; an illuminated letter from Bill Gates, who bought the page to threaten all the people of earth with swift retribution if he is brought down “even the teensiest bit” by the U.S. Justice Department... Illuminated with tremulous reactions from ordinary citizens…
December 05, 2005
Onward & Upward With the Arts
- Man of Letters [ABSTRACT]
- ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about type designer Matthew Carter… Carter is universally acknowledged as the most significant designer of type in America. Carter is 68, he is British and he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has designed type for Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Wired, and the Guardian. He…
August 09, 2004
The Financial Page
- Cash Kills
- THE FINANCIAL PAGE about the hoarding of cash by corporations and its effects on the economy…American corporations have learned to salt away their gains. Microsoft is at the head of the class; its sixty billion dollars in savings makes it the richest company in the history of the world…
May 07, 2001
The Financial Page
- Games People Play
- Signed financial page talk story about Electronic Arts, a video game manufacturer… Tells about video game hardware offerings due from Microsoft (Xbox); Sony (PlayStation 2, already in stores) and Nintendo (GameCube)… Americans will spend as much money on video games this year as they will at the box office. There’s…
April 17, 2000
The Talk of the Town (The Financial Page)
- The Financial Page Is Microsoft Bad or Just Misunderstood? [ABSTRACT]
- Talk story about the Microsoft trial... “Predatory,” which you can find sprinkled liberally throughout Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s ruling in the Microsoft antitrust case, is an evocative word. ...When you’re a business predator—when your main objective is to destroy your competitors, rather…
