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• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
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• Hear me out. Linux is Microsoft's main competition right now.
  Because of this we are forcing them to "innovate", something they would usually avoid....
• letterbomb 1. n. A piece of email containing live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It used to be possible, for example, to send letterbombs that would lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must cycle power (see cycle, sense 3) to unwedge them....
• OS/2 /O S too/ n. The anointed successor to MS-DOS for Intel 286- and 386-based micro
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• Microsoft Open Source Solitaire REDMOND, WA -- In a first attempt at "embrace-and-extend" of open source software
  Microsoft will release its popular Solitaire and FreeCell games as open source under the MILA (Microsoft Innovative License Agreement)....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• Bill Gates Passes Turing Test LONDON, ENGLAND -- Microsoft proclaimed that they have passed the Turing Test by creating a Bill Gates multimedia simulacrum that crack BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman couldn't distinguish from the real thing.
  I never would have expected this," Paxman said about the Gates AI program....