Gallery: Marketing the 787 Dreamliner
On the eve on the 787's first flight, the media was taken through the Dreamliner Gallery in Everett, Wash. where customers pick seats, themes, galleys, bars and any number of amenities.
On the eve on the 787's first flight, the media was taken through the Dreamliner Gallery in Everett, Wash. where customers pick seats, themes, galleys, bars and any number of amenities.
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Bob Herbold has more polish and finesse than his two immediate bosses, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, but he takes their same tough stance on key issues affecting the company.In an interview with PC Week's John Dodge, Herbold - the personification of Microsoft's softer publicity push - said his company wants to resolve the Department of Justice suit quickly, but it has no plans to free up its technology a la Netscape, or let its guard down.
Intel Corp.'s acknowledgment today that its first 64-bit processor, code-named Merced, will be delayed by approximately six months comes at a particularly inopportune time for the chip giant, which is bracing for a possible antitrust lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission.
It's a new survival strategy for the low-cost PC maker: Dodge the problem of aging inventory by only making as many computers as ordered. Looks like it's paying off.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. launched Windows 98 Thursday by talking almost as much about cars as it did software, in a tortured twist of its "Route 98" theme.
If Windows 98 garners even half the sales analysts predict, Microsoft can pat itself on the back for having done a masterful job at selling a product that constitutes the end of a line. For nearly two years, Microsoft officials have warned customers that Win98 is the last of the Windows family, and that its next consumer desktop be a version of Windows NT, the industrial-strength Microsoft OS for big business.
Microsoft could sidestep the PC slowdown that trampled other companies' earnings, according to analysts.
Lotus Development Corp. announced internally Tuesday that Raymond Ozzie, the architect of Notes, had resigned to pursue a new project. Ozzie founded Iris Associates in 1984 -- the company that went on to create Notes for Lotus in 1990.
Some Talkback regulars noted that Torvalds may dodge the GPLv3 bullet because so little of the Linux kernel is dependent on third-party libraries. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the fact that, in the real world, every Linux distribution will be bound by the GPLv3 copyright rules.
Merced is more than a year down the road, but Intel Corp. and its partners are ramping up their preparations for the 64-bit processor's arrival.