Spencer F. Katt

El Gato was intrigued by some newspeak that Microsofts Steve Ballmer incorporated into his Mastermind Interview at the Gartner Symposium last week in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Ballmer was extemporizing about the Liberty Alliance initiative that rival Sun had put together with industry partners. In arguing that Liberty poses no threat to products like Microsofts […]

The kitty recently heard tales from a self-proclaimed insider at IBM who claims that Lou Gerstners planned departure from Big Blue may not be going as smoothly as he would like. According to the tattler, market conditions may be making it harder and harder for Big Lou to hand over the reins to President and […]

Spencer noticed quite a buzz on the Internet concerning the fact that hacking would be considered a terrorist act under U.S. Attorney General John Ashcrofts proposed Anti-Terrorism Act. The Puss pondered whether punishment for the folks who vigorously propagate countless urban legend spam e-mails to their family, friends and co-workers should also be included in […]

Readers of Rumor Central know it has always been El Gatos fondest wish to jump aboard a hot trend while its still cutting edge. So, naturally, the Kitty has been toying with the idea of changing his name to Spencer XP. And, why not? Obviously, the folks at AMD think its a good idea, too. […]

In the immediate wake of last weeks attacks on the world Trade Center towers and Pentagon, a couple of vastly different broadcast e-mails were sent out by tech-land officials that were worth noting. For example, about 45 minutes after the attacks, Nicholas Longo, CEO of Web design application company CoffeeCup, sent a brief e-mail to […]

His hirsuteness was forwarded an e-mail that a tattler received from the Microsoft Events group thanking him for attending a recent Microsoft .Net Developer Training session in Philadelphia. But the Furball fan was miffed when he noticed an Excel file at the bottom of the message with detailed personal information for the more than 360 […]

Delegates at last weeks LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco were disappointed that there was no formal company-sponsored conference party. In a town known for its wild partying, many of the open-source geeks were hoping for a repeat of the lavish bash sponsored by IBM at the previous LinuxWorld in New York last January. Apparently, none […]

A tipster alerted El Gato to a controversy concerning a peer-to-peer application that appeared in the Aug. 13 “Litter box Lynx.” It seems a lot of folks on the Web are accusing the new file sharing system Kazaa of depositing what they are calling a “hijacking tool” named TopText onto your Web browser. Operating within […]

Supercalifragilistic—XP—alidocious!” mumbled the Mouser as he contemplated a recent missive from Microsofts Jim Allchin. The head honcho of the Windows team sent out an e-mail last week to a number of tech journalists saying, “We are getting very close to RTM [release to manufacturing] of Windows XP. I am interested if you have any specific […]

Images of “Young Frankenstein” came rushing back to the Whiskered One last week as he watched a video clip of Steve Ballmer that was making its way around the Web. The footage shows Ballmer, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Peter Boyles monster in Mel Brooks classic comedy, bursting onto an auditorium stage after being […]

From plans for world domination to speculation that Bill Gates can see you in the shower—it seems there has never been a shortage of conspiracy theories inspired by Microsoft and its products. So, naturally, Spencer was amused to hear that a very senior Redmond exec actually came up with a conspiracy theory of his own—that […]

Ever wonder what bill gates does in his spare time? The Kitty found out it might all be fun and games. At a recent Microsoft Global Sales conference in Miami, Mr. Bill displayed an old computer game that he wrote in BASIC several years ago. In the game, a driver tries to avoid oncoming donkeys. […]