From the Dark Side--M$ Loses $ in Four of Seven Business Units

according to this InfoWorld article. The losers include the Xbox division but apparently not the Mac Business Unit which isn't mentioned. The biggest winner? The Windows client division, of course. It funds Microsoft's forays into other business areas where M$ loses big money as competitiors go under. [Dana Baggett]

-- TGIF, November 15 --

[Update] Tonight on The Mac Night Owl LIVE at 8pm CT, 9pm ET. Friday's lead topic on The Mac Night Owl LIVE is Mac OS X and UNIX integration. Does Apple's eye-catching OS play well with other UNIX operating systems? This is a discussion for both beginners and experts alike. Our guest will be noted computer guru Pieter Paulson, co-author of "The Windows 2000 Mac Support Little Black Book." On the second hour, we'll welcome a genuine Apple "Switcher," Ben Dunton, who bought his first iMac in January. His friends at work now call him the "iGuy."

[Update 7:15a ET] OpenOSX Updates Grass GIS 5.0.0 CD: OpenOSX, a leading provider of easy-to-use, world-class open-source software, today began shipping their updated Grass GIS 5.0.0 CD and has made a free update available for all OpenOSX Grass 5.0.0 customers. Grass (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a complete state-of-the-art Geographical Information System (GIS). Grass is one of, if not the most, complete and sophisticated open-source GIS’. Grass has now been in development for more then twenty years and by the size of it’s code base Grass is one the ten largest open-source projects in history.

The binaries may be downloaded from Grass' home Baylor University or from its development headquarters (Istituto Trentino di Cultura) at:
<http://grass.itc.it/grass5/binary/mac_os_x/>. The OpenOSX Grass CD is US$50 and 6-month CD subscriptions are available for US$120. More information about the OpenOSX Grass CD is available at <http://OpenOSX.com/grass/>. The free Grass update is available at:
<http://OpenOSX.com/support/>.

[Update 7:15a ET] Griffin Releases iMic Control 1.5 for Mac OS 9 and OS X: Griffin Technology, Inc. today announced the release of iMic Control 1.5, free software that adds Volume, Input Gain, Bass and Treble control to the Mac when used with an iMic USB Audio Interface. This software gives sound shaping control to applications that previously had none - such as web browsers streaming music or audio. It also enables Audio Play-Through monitoring on Mac OS 9. iMic Control 1.5 software is available now for free download.

[Update 7:15a ET] GameRanger adds Heroes of Might and Magic IV: Scott Kevill, president, GameRanger Technologies, today announced the addition of a new game title to GameRanger, the leading Macintosh online gaming service. In addition to the 109 previous titles, gamers can now play Heroes of Might and Magic IV. GameRanger is available free from http://www.GameRanger.com/.