The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

May 1998

The LA Fox Developer is the monthly newsletter of the LA Fox Developers Group. The purpose is information sharing among application developers and users working with FoxPro.

L A Fox Address

LA Fox

P.O. Box 6624

Huntington Beach, CA 92615-6624

I A Fnx Rnird of Directors

Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor

Bill Anderson, Vice President/Programs

Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership

Chuck Williams, President Emeritus

George Dvorak

Bill Seldon

Mike Cummings

Michael Meer

George Porter

LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in Southern California. The newsletter contains regular columns as well as articles from other user groups.

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2210 Wilshire Blvd. - #161

Santa Monica, CA 90403

OC FoxPro Developers Group

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Out and About (Con't from Page 1)

www.mesllc.com/conf98.html) providing all the details for this great cost- effective event. And, of course, you can follow all the details right here. So start making plans now to attend. [Ed. Note: For your convenience, a conference registration is included on page 9 of this issue.]

Since We Last Met...

“Anyone Taking Bets?” Department, Part 1. It looks like Microsoft might be headed for some bumpy road in its quest to release Windows ‘98.

As The LA Fox Developer went to press, an article in The Seattle Times stated that seventeen states are prepared to file a lawsuit accusing MS of using its dominance in PC operating systems to control markets ranging from Internet browsers to office productivity systems to electronic TV-guide listings to E-mail programs. The states, including California, have decided to file a lawsuit in US District Court at the same time the Justice Department is expected to sue under the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. Discussions between MS and govenment authorities have reached a stalemate. As a result, federal and state antitrust prosecutors are poised to seek an injunction aimed squarely at Windows 98 one day before it is scheduled to be shipped. While these legal maneuverings won’t necessarily prevent shipment of the product, they could force MS to make substantial last-minute changes if a judge agrees to grant some of the demands sought, including:

* MS to immediately provide computer makers the ability to substitute other Internet browsers or immediately provide computer makers with another version of Windows 98 withoutlE.

* MS to stop making Windows 98 licensing deals that force computer makers to put on the computer's desktop certain items that give MS special preference.

* MS to stop cutting deals with ISPs that require them to promote lE in exchange for special access on MS’s referral pages.

Keep an eye on this one.

For All You Trekkies Got a new website for you - http:/I www.lunaticlounge.com/treklove/. Even if you’re not a trekkie, seek this one out. Or should I say, “Go where no man has gone before?” Either way, it’s a real hoot!!

Apple Computer is trying to make a comeback with the iMac. Keep an eye on this one, too.

Seinfield Who? I’ll really be glad when all the hype about the last Seinfield episode is over and done with. But the show about nothing has nothing on http://www.urban75.com/Mag/useless.html. If you go there, make sure you check out the Useless Java Page. There’s one part of it that’s kind of spooky.. .at least from a PC point of view.

“Anyone Taking Bets?” Department, Part 2. I don’t know if anyone else is feeling this way, but I get the distinct feeling that VB is going to start playing a bigger part in all of our livelihoods. Let me know what you think by e-mailing me at brlee@earthlink.net.

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