"Us or Them"

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The Seattle Times


Friday, June 23, 2000

Gates wants Net everywhere, with Microsoft right there too

By Paul Andrews

Special to The Seattle Times


Gates called .NET the company's biggest strategic move since Windows 3.0, the May 1990 release that opened the door to Microsoft's dominance of desktop computing.

"There is no Microsoft product that isn't touched by this capability," Gates said of .NET.

An explosion of small-screen devices not dependent on the Windows interface has led critics to forecast that Microsoft's role will diminish in future Internet-based computing.

"Microsoft is losing its grip on the developer community because they are writing now to Internet standards and not Microsoft standards," said Rick Sherlund, a Goldman, Sachs & Co. analyst. "This is an effort by Microsoft to win them back."

Using flashy videotaped demonstrations, company executives showed a future of talking computers that respond readily to human speech and can "authenticate" user identities in sensitive situations.

One video, using a former "Seinfeld" TV series actor, showed how someone who forgot his cell phone could be issued a new phone at the airport simply by giving an attendant a "smart card" containing personal information. The card's data could then configure the phone to receive a variety of Internet services.

Later, when the actor was hurt and needed medical attention, the phone was used to authenticate his identity with his physician and access his medical history, insurance and billing information.










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From 5/29/1956 ( premiere US film "D-Day the Sixth of June" ) To 1/17/1991 ( the Persian Gulf War begins ) is 12651 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days



From 1/22/1950 ( premiere US film "The Titan: Story of Michelangelo" ) To 6/22/2000 is 18414 days

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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) is 9207 days



From 1/22/1950 ( premiere US film "The Titan: Story of Michelangelo" ) To 6/22/2000 is 18414 days

18414 = 9207 + 9207

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the Persian Gulf War begins ) is 9207 days



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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days



From 12/7/1962 ( the Atlas supercomputer launched in Manchester England ) To 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1"::series premiere episode "Children of the Gods" ) is 12651 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/22/2000 is 12651 days


From 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) To 6/22/2000 is 563 days

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'Let The Experience Begin!'

Story Published: Jun 23, 2000 at 10:45 AM PST

Story Updated: Aug 30, 2006 at 10:07 PM PST

By KOMO Staff & News Services

Watch the story SEATTLE - Multibillionaire Paul Allen lifted a Dale Chihuly glass guitar above his head and smashed it to smithereens, opening his $240 million Experience Music Project museum of American popular music.

The normally reclusive Allen spoke for about five minutes -- one of his longest public speeches -- to welcome a crowd of several hundred at the grand opening Friday outside the colorful, free-form walls of the Frank Gehry-designed building.

As artist Chihuly watched and laughed, Allen lifted the glass replica of an electric guitar and hurled it to the podium where it shattered.

"Let the experience begin!" Allen shouted into the microphone as confetti and streamers flew in the background.

"This has been a long process, over eight years," Allen said afterward. "I'm on a natural high right now."


"When people realize what it is -- as it evolves, it's going to be a pretty spectacular thing," said Frank Gehry, the world-renowned architect who designed the curvy, colorful building and was here to attend the private EMP gala Thursday and grand opening Friday.



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The Seattle Times


Tuesday, June 6, 2000

$2 billion incentive for Net strategy

By Dina Bass

Bloomberg News

ORLANDO - Microsoft said it will spend $2 billion to educate developers and speed adoption of its new Internet-based software and services, including an electronic-commerce program unveiled yesterday.

The world's largest software maker is shifting its focus from packaged software for personal computers toward Internet programs that work across various systems, Web sites and computing devices. The company is to explain the strategy, Next Generation Windows Services, on June 22.

"We are moving from the PC as the sole platform to the Internet as the platform," said Chairman Bill Gates at a conference for software developers and information-technology managers in Orlando.

Gates unveiled the funding at the conference, which is intended to encourage developers to write programs for use with new Microsoft products. He also introduced software that helps companies execute online transactions and design Web services that work across various systems, part of the Windows DNA platform for business on the Internet.

Companies can use the new software to create and manage e-commerce tasks that extend beyond their own computer system and into another company's network. The software will be included in Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2000 product, which is scheduled for a preview release in the next few weeks.

Microsoft said its technology simplifies creation of e-commerce programs, meaning companies will be able to rely on business analysts and consultants to program these processes, rather than hiring separate software developers.

Microsoft plans to use the $2 billion to educate developers about its new products and services and to ensure developers' efforts to write programs for them are successful.

Some analysts say developers may be reluctant to write programs for Microsoft's Next Generation Windows Services platform, known as NGWS, amid concern the government's effort to break up the company will derail the strategy.

Money to aid in training and software development could persuade developers to shelve those concerns. It also will help focus developers on writing programs for the platform and related products, said Chris Atkinson, vice president of Windows DNA Web Services.

"There's no doubt that we've lost some mindshare among developers to other technologies that are out there over the last year or two, but this shows that we're back," he said.

Gates had planned to elaborate on the connection between Windows DNA and NGWS but changed his speech after Microsoft postponed an NGWS briefing Thursday. The briefing was postponed to June 22 because Microsoft believed a federal judge was poised to issue his ruling on remedies in the antitrust case.

Microsoft said it will announce software today that speeds Internet traffic and protects corporate networks, its first product in those areas.

The software, called Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000, acts as a "firewall," protecting corporate networks from hackers and unwanted Internet content and e-mails. The new product also acts to cache popular Web pages, storing them closer to computers for quicker loading.



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The Seattle Times


Friday, June 23, 2000

Gates wants Net everywhere, with Microsoft right there too

By Paul Andrews

Special to The Seattle Times

Promising to work with competitors as well as partners to make the Internet as pervasive and easy to use as the telephone, Microsoft yesterday unveiled a sweeping strategy that may change the company as much as it is designed to transform the Internet.

Referring only indirectly to the threat of a court-ordered breakup of the company, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer described a set of software services called "Microsoft .NET" to put personal information in a "cloud" on the Internet, ready for access anytime, anywhere" from a host of devices.

If successfully implemented, the .NET approach would mean cell phones, hand-held organizers, pagers, digital cameras and camcorders, computer "tablets" and even household appliances could push and pull data instantly among themselves and the Internet.

Today, most users' personal information resides on a PC on their desk or in their home, which complicates sharing with friends, associates, employers and services such as health-care providers.

"We will move beyond these islands of technology," Gates said.

The scale of the initiative is suggested in the resources Microsoft is putting behind it. The company is dedicating more than half its $4 billion research-and-development budget this year to .NET, Ballmer said.

Microsoft's stewardship of such an all-encompassing system may give Justice Department regulators and competitors pause. The company's dominance of personal computers has led critics to express fear that Microsoft could some day rule the Internet.

"This is Microsoft, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes," said Chris LeTocq, an analyst with the Gartner Group. "But if the (Justice Department) doesn't look at this and say it proves their point, I'd be surprised."

Ballmer seemed to bend over backward to address concerns.

"We will run this with the same kind of openness we have run Windows," he told a gathering of about 300 media and analysts at Microsoft's new executive briefing center in Building 33 on the Redmond campus.

.NET "has got to be the best way to help users and (software) developers take advantage of this (Internet) platform," Ballmer said. "But it's certainly not going to be the only way."

The basis for .NET, an Internet standard called XML, or extensible markup language, will ensure that services "work with a variety of devices," not just Windows computers, Ballmer said.

"We will talk to partners and competitors about taking the .NET software and adapting it to other platforms," Ballmer pledged.

The technology would allow someone to post a resume on the Internet, for instance, that could be read by others using all types of devices and viewed in the original formatting. Key words on the resume would be linkable, so a viewer could click on a listed company and go to that company's Web site.

Already on board the effort are a handful of industry players, most surprisingly Marc Andreessen of Loudcloud, an Internet startup. Andreessen, who co-founded archrival Netscape Communications shortly after he left college, once dubbed Microsoft the "beast of Redmond" and compared company tactics with Don Corleone's severed horse head in the movie "The Godfather."

Other endorsements came from Compaq, Sony, Dell, media company CMGI and service provider Commerce One.

"If you'd asked me six months ago whether I'd be on stage partnering with Marc Andreessen, I would've thought that was pretty strange," Ballmer said. Andreessen reportedly declined an invitation to appear at the event.

None of the demonstrations displayed technologies of competitors such as America Online, Palm Computing, Oracle, Sun Microsystems or Linux.

.NET will mean a gradual change in Microsoft's business. Because Internet services don't "come wrapped in a box," as Gates put it, revenue will rely on subscription services, royalties and licenses for a variety of products. Microsoft Office applications will be sold as subscriptions for upgrades and fixes - a new and uncertain approach for the company, analysts pointed out.

"Software as a service is a concept you really have to let your mind wrap around for a while," Ballmer said. Asked if he were worried about the new direction, he said, "It's my job to worry - but I think there's incredible opportunity out there."

Microsoft has been talking about the new initiative, which carried the title Next Generation Windows Services, since January, when Ballmer was named CEO and Gates took the title of chief software architect. Since then, the company has been involved in a cat-and-mouse game with government attorneys over the specific nature of NGWS. The aggressive vision behind it may have spurred the government's historic proposal to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to split Microsoft in two.

Microsoft, in fact, delayed yesterday's announcement from June 1 in deference to Jackson's ruling, which as expected ordered a breakup of the company. Jackson gave the company a reprieve of sorts, though, when in forwarding the case to the Supreme Court for potential expediting, he stayed a series of conduct restrictions that would have seriously hampered what was to be called .NET.

Gates said the company forged ahead with its strategy even in the face of behavioral restrictions.

"Nothing here was affected by thinking the courts might influence it or it might influence the courts," Gates said.

Gates called .NET the company's biggest strategic move since Windows 3.0, the May 1990 release that opened the door to Microsoft's dominance of desktop computing.

"There is no Microsoft product that isn't touched by this capability," Gates said of .NET.

An explosion of small-screen devices not dependent on the Windows interface has led critics to forecast that Microsoft's role will diminish in future Internet-based computing.

"Microsoft is losing its grip on the developer community because they are writing now to Internet standards and not Microsoft standards," said Rick Sherlund, a Goldman, Sachs & Co. analyst. "This is an effort by Microsoft to win them back."

Using flashy videotaped demonstrations, company executives showed a future of talking computers that respond readily to human speech and can "authenticate" user identities in sensitive situations.

One video, using a former "Seinfeld" TV series actor, showed how someone who forgot his cell phone could be issued a new phone at the airport simply by giving an attendant a "smart card" containing personal information. The card's data could then configure the phone to receive a variety of Internet services.

Later, when the actor was hurt and needed medical attention, the phone was used to authenticate his identity with his physician and access his medical history, insurance and billing information.

Given daily attacks of viruses and frequent security holes in Internet software, the practicability of such a scenario may be questionable. But Gates said "authentication advances" enabling secure data over the Internet "are coming soon."

"It's doable, it's workable," said Ballmer. "But we have some work ahead of us."

Gates and Ballmer both emphasized the long-term nature of the .NET vision. Ballmer presented a timeline pegging most of the advances in the year 2002-plus column, although Microsoft plans to begin issuing developer tools this summer. The company plans to release a new version of Windows, called Windows .NET, some time next year.



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Friday, June 23, 2000

NICOLE BRODEUR

Stars do `Wild Thing' at private EMP party

By Nicole Brodeur

Seattle Times staff columnist

Try this on for size: Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, VH1 President John Sykes and MTV President Judy McGrath all trying to be rock stars.

"We look like a wedding band with tuxedos on!" Katzenberg said, viewing the frozen image of himself and bandmates playing "Wild Thing" in Experience Music Project's pre-opening gala. They were grooving in the On Stage interactive "arena" that lets anyone - even studio moguls - be a rock band for a screaming virtual crowd.

"Wait until you see how cool we are!" Katzenberg called to the others. "This is one for your office wall!"

These power players can make them, they can break them, but they could only pretend to be famous musicians.


Outside, it was nothing but names. The stars came from all corners, some as far as Europe, for a first look at Paul Allen's dream museum. Most were "special guests," others paid up to $1,000 per ticket to sip champagne, dip shrimp and gape at people they've only seen on album covers.


At the top of the stairs, Bill Gates stood looking slightly puzzled










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Springfield! Springfield!


Ascension

Part 3


(Bryce): Is anyone there? Answer me! Is anyone there?










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