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It's a stunner: Microsoft buys into Apple. Can you believe it? The Macworld audience didn't -- gasps and boos peppered the auditorium when Apple co-founder Steve Jobs announced the alliance. Share your reaction in our forum. Other news out of Jobs' speech: Jobs and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison join the board, Mike Markkula resigns, and Bill Gates spoke to the crowd via video feed.
Also from Boston: Apple announces a 350 megahertz Power Mac as well as lots of other product announcements. Mac OS8 sales are strong, three times as strong as Apple predicted, since it went on sale July 26.
Buy way low, sell way high: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, is selling 5.45 million shares of Microsoft, which is a mere fraction of the 100 million shares or so that he owns.
No Net taxes, for now: German state governments have backed off their plans to tax PCs connected to the Internet.
Save this link? Given all the hoopla about Wired's failed IPO, Netly News and Stating the Obvious offer 101 Ways to Save Wired.
Still together: Netscape won't separate Navigator from Communicator, at least not yet, the company says. Earlier reports had said the separation of browser and desktop suite was imminent.
Hang on to your laptop; 265,000 were stolen last year. As Newtons and the U.S. Robotics Palm Pilots become more popular, it's a good guess that thieves will target them as well.
Faster, cheaper: If you're looking for a deal on a 56K modem, Diamond is cutting prices. You can also get a rebate.
What is it about Digital Equipment Corporation? It's been around forever, in computer company lifespans, extraordinary resources, technical brilliance -- yet it's losing market share and can barely eke out a profit.
By Patricia Sullivan, online editor
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what you think about Microsoft buying a stake in Apple
We have to let go of a few notions
here. We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft needs to lose.
-- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs
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