«Random 2000», or n/e/tsurf's selection of online news and events, facts and figures, shake-outs and shake-ups, followed online day after day.

Microsoft
The year the judgment came in and Microsoft was ordered to break up, in an anti-trust case over the company's fusing it's Windows desktop with it's browser software. How did they react? With more arrogance.

"The idea that somebody would say that breakup is a reasonable thing comes as quite a surprise to us, and we are quite confident that it won't be something that ever comes into effect." -- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft,


DOJ vs Microsoft
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of the Microsoft Corporation June 7, saying the severe remedy was necessary because Microsoft "has proved untrustworthy in the past" and did not appear to accept his ruling that it had broadly violated the nation's antitrust laws.

In its antitrust appeal, Microsoft is contending that the trial it lost was so technical and esoteric that the presiding judge was unable to comprehend the facts. The NY Times Coverage of the Microsoft Antitrust Trial.

A gleeful day at Microsoft
When Larry Ellison of Oracle admitted to having hired a detective agency to investigate Microsoft's allies, by offering payments to janitors at the group's Washington office. NYTimes

Hacked
Hackers broke into Microsoft and stole blueprints to the latest versions of the company's Windows and Office software. Microsoft Attacked

Viruses Hit Outlook
Many viruses targeted Microsoft's Outlook e-mail software. To name just a few: I Love You, Navidad, Romeo and Juliet, MTX. Latest Viruses

Internet Explorer
As of June 18, more than 86 percent of all computers with a browser had Internet Explorer, according to a study. Netscape's once-dominant browser slipped to an all-time low of just under 14%. Wired

Happy Birthday
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and 18,000 workers celebrated the company's 25th birthday this year.


E-Mail
Some facts and figures and innovative new software and a disturbing new snooping law (RIP) in Great-Britain.

Facts and Figures
According to a study by IDC, Net surfers are sending 10 billion e-mail messages a day, and that number should more than triple in five years. The Industry Standard

As of June 2000, U.S. workers were receiving an average of 196 e-mails each day. e-Company now

The average online user wading through 2'052 e-mails this year, according to Jupiter Communications.

The email marketing industry will be worth $ 4.5 billion by 2003, according to a report released in October by eMarketer. Nua Survey

According to a new study from Ferris Research, using email results in an overall productivity gain of $ 9 000 per employee. Nua Survey

54 percent of American companies currently monitor employees’ Internet use and 38 percent save and review employees’ e-mail, according to a survey done this year by the American Management
Association. ABCNews

According to a new survey, 90 percent of users go online to check email and to get information. Newsfactor

Eudora's Mood Watch
Qualcomm's new 5.0 version of Eudora, comes with a mood watch, a new language tool that acts as an emotion monitor for your email that lags aggressive language and calls it to your attention.

FireDrop
A new e-mail service that will let you update your message -- even after it was sent.

Safe Message
SafeMessage provides total privacy by preventing the duplication of its encrypted messages and allowing the sender to set the message autoshred date, leaving no permanent record anywhere.

BottleMail
A system for delivering email, but is totally different from regular email because both the destination (one single person) and the date when it will be delivered are unspecified.

Incredimail
IncrediMail allows you to tailor your emails according to your mood and personality. Visual effects will entertain your every sense. And your email will look like what you see in the movies.

The Emergency Email Network
The Emergency Email Network notifies you of an Emergency by EMAIL from your local, regional and national government sources.

DISTURBING:
UK's The Regulation of Investigatory Powers
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill is under heavy fire from the internet community in the UK and abroad, for it's attempt to regulate covert surveillance by allowing the monitoring and intercepting of communications by law enforcement and security agencies. BBC

E-MAIL NIGHTMARE
UK's The Regulation of Investigatory Powers
Claire Swire from London gained national notoriety in December when an e-mail exchange with her boyfriend about oral sex was forwarded by her boyfriend to some of his male friends. Within minutes, the friends had forwarded it to their friends, and within hours the exchange had spread across the globe. Wired


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