Month: May 1998

“Everybody I work with I want to be exclusive with.”

Computer Associates CEO Charles Wang, on the giant systems integrator’s one-sided taste for monogamy, Infoworld, 18 May 1998

“What excites me about it is the future. And to successfully predict the future is kind of a rush.”

Tim Glass, CEO of Cybermeals, explaining why he’s so stoked about re-engineering the ordering of takeout food for the Web, The Industry Standard, 18 May 1998

“Today’s action is intended to ensure that consumers and computer-makers have the right to choose which software they want installed on their personal computers, and not have that software chosen for them.”

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, giving voice to the tech consumer’s desires as she announced the Government’s suit against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Wired News, 18 May 1998

“That would be tantamount to undermining our franchise by making Windows some bit of software plumbing that no one sees.”

An unnamed Microsoft executive, not seeing the upside in plans by the government to allow PC manufacturers to slap their own front ends over Windows’ start screen, The New York Times, 18 May 1998

“The fact that Microsoft is negotiating with the Justice Department and apparently is prepared to make substantial concessions certainly undermines any argument that Justice has no case.”

Senator Orrin Hatch, (R.-Novell), getting dizzy from trying to spin the latest machinations in the Department of Justice’s antitrust investigation of Microsoft, News.com, 14 May 1998