Is Mr. Gates pouring fuel on his rivals' fire?

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Bill Gates, head of software maker Microsoft Corp., gave $50 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to fund its Laboratory for Computer Sciences. Some within the lab are positing PC-less computing a "network full of services." Consumers would subscribe to computing services, marketed like cable TV or telephones. Instead of relying on in-house hardware and support, businesses will outsource their IT needs. Microsoft's recent reorganization, despite its overlay of PC-centric advocacy, leaves this pre-eminent consumer marketing company positioned to dominate any new software market. And Mr. Gates' gift will help educate the people needed to found the innovative companies he or his successor will one day acquire.

Prepackaged software, Software Publishers, Public affairs, Applications Software Pkgs (Micro), Computer Science, Editorial, Computer software industry, Computer industry, Software industry, Microsoft Corp., Donations, Gates, Bill, Public relations, Applications software, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Company public relations

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A coming-togerther of foes to assess Internet's impact

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Microsoft operating officer Robert J. Herbold, former Netscape Communications president James Barksdale and 17 other cyber pioneers, politicians and corporate sponsors have founded the a new, nonprofit research center, the Internet Policy Institute. Institute president Kimberly Jenkins sees the center as "a Brookings Institution for the Internet". With a yearly $10 million budget, the blossoming think tank hopes to help determine how the Internet will affect society and the economy to help policy makers form crucial decisions. The board features such diverse members as Newt Gingrich to Adam Clayton Powell III, with the agenda that there is no agenda. The institute plans to have no political or idealogical basis.

Science & research, Noncommercial research organizations, Research & Development-Nonprofits, Planning, Internet, Reports, Research, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Internet/Web overview, Nonprofit organizations, Barksdale, James L., Herbold, Robert, Internet Policy Institute

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