23rd December 1999 Archive

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Brazil bans Quake and other PC games

The whole world's gone stark staring bonkers

A Brazilian reader has written to The Register and says that his government has banned Quake and five other games it rules as too violent. According to the reader, the objective of the Procuradoria da República is to prohibit all excessive violent games and to include new titles as just as soon as their effects can be evaluated …

Business 23 Dec 1999, 09:15
Scott McNealy uses Tardis to re-assure customers about Y2K bug

Somewhere at Sun there's a prophet...

Forget Nostradamus, and put Old Mother Shipton out of your mind completely. Because Sun Microsystems has already entered the year 2000 and reports that there's no problems with their machines at all. According to the information, which is posted at this Sun page here, and dated December 27th 1999, there have been no issues with …

Business 23 Dec 1999, 09:24
Register LEGO compo results

You had to be in it to win it -- oh, and you also had to be based in the UK

Last week Santa Vulture invited UK Register readers to enter a competition to win a bundle of top LEGO games and software. The winner of the competition is Larry Gardiner, who works in the Compaq Enterprise Solutions and Services Group. More of Larry and his prize-winning entry later. We had lots of entries -- including a few …

Business 23 Dec 1999, 13:58
MS CFO Maffei leaves for fibre-filled role

Second time lucky for Greg's breakout bid

Greg Maffei, CFO of Microsoft since he took over from Michael Brown in 1997, is leaving to join Worldwide Fiber of Vancouver, a BC-based builder of fibre optic networks. This is not the first time that Maffei has indicated he wanted to leave. In April he was offered the job of CEO of Road Runner (a cable modem Internet service …

Business 23 Dec 1999, 14:08
Money-chasing lawyers popped too many pills, says MS

Ambulance chasers hold Washington gaffe-fest

Yesterday, American legal vultures met in Washington in an attempt to pick over the carcass of Microsoft, supposedly because they are acting in the interest of clients who have been harmed by the business practices of Fort Redmond. The truth is of course that they scent some rich pickings, and hope that Microsoft would rather …

Business 23 Dec 1999, 14:10
Alpha reseller up in arms over API delays

Updated Not a happy soul...unhappy...

A letter sent from an API reseller to the company complaining about problems with products has now been resolved. API contacted The Register late today, and said that the issues with the reseller have now been resolved. According to Miles Chesney, marketing director at API Europe, the UP1000 is now available in the channel and …

Business 23 Dec 1999, 18:30