The Gates Library Foundation, More NT Bugs & Ms TV Part III
(06/23/97) Last Week's News News Archives

Bill Gates & spouse, Melinda French, have started the 'Gates Library Foundation' so libraries in low-income areas can connect to the internet and, incidentally, buy more Microsoft products. The Gateses donated $200 million which was matched by software commitments worth $400 from Gates' Microsoft Corp. As Update observed last week, every dime Gates invests eventually comes back to him, due to schools/libraries adding their own money to the donations and then 85% of the computers' cost going back to Ms. In other words: due to the Gates donation, more of your local tax money than normal will go to Microsoft Corp.

Some hackers showed off a new NT bug by shutting down Microsoft' web site with it. Sadly, the Ms site would've been down anyway due to line & server upgrades. Most of this week the site was an endless loop of redirection scripts, the main page redirected you to a page that redirected you to itelf and would keep doing that until the end of time unless you hit the Stop button. Who needs hackers when you've got incompotent web programmers?

Speaking in Japan, Ms s.e.v.p. Craig Mundie said all PCs will be capable of receiving digital TV signals by the melennium. Mundie said Memphis (Windows 98) will be capable of receiving the digital television signals. He also said "TVs have no choice but to move somewhat closer to PCs, while PCs have to move more toward simplicity," meaning they're afraid the PC market will fizzle so they're going to try and monopolize TV as well. We have to wonder, will digital MSNBC make any difference to the thousands of people who already ignore it?

Saturday, 16-Nov-2002 17:22:42 EST