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More dot-coms drop dot-dead as Microsoft invites reader comments See correction below
And a study by Cushman & Wakefield last week said that 80 percent of the remaining dot-coms in the valley of technology would join the likes of Pets.com and others that have called it quits during the past year. The bust will clear out needed office space for companies that actually have the word profit in their business plans. Even I haven't been feeling quite myself lately. But there's no rest for the weary, hard-nosed journalist. To the editor You may have noticed in the Letters section of last week's issue (March 26) a response from Microsoft regarding reports in this column of the Redmond giant's squashing attempts to publish negative benchmarking results for Windows 2000. Microsoft says that the clause in its licensing agreement is "there to ensure that published data is accurate." But certainly, you'll want to go back and check out the letter. Toward the end, Microsoft states that it is interested in hearing from readers on the topic of benchmarking and vendor restrictions. Readers should let Microsoft know what they think at www.bnchfdbk@microsoft.com. If you do decide to give Microsoft a piece of your mind, please also cc: yours truly, at cringe@infoworld.com, and InfoWorld's reader-advocate columnist, Ed Foster, at gripe@infoworld.com. We'd like to have a look at what you say about this issue before Microsoft twists it for use in its positive-PR spin machine. High tech in the Big Apple Business travelers may be tempted by the tag line "New York City's most technologically advanced hotel." The Holiday Inn Wall Street advertises T1 hookups in all rooms. But don't be surprised if after you check in you can't send any e-mail. The hotel supports only POP3, not SMTP, because the latter puts too much stress on the hotel's servers. Hotel help desk personnel suggest that guests use AOL or Hotmail because "we have to protect our servers from too much activity." More dot-gones Rumor has it that eJewelry.com and Office.com are close to the edge of the abyss we know as dot-dead. eJewelry.com has asked its head of marketing, responsible for a 600 percent increase in sales last year, to step down. Office.com laid off about a dozen field editors last month. And in the past week a subcontractor company that provides content to Office.com ordered all its writers to stop providing content immediately because Office.com hadn't paid its bill. Word is the company, owned by Winstar, which is billions of dollars in debt, will call it quits by the summer. "EVEN IF THE prices are dropping, maybe it makes more sense to buy out of state," Randi said, poring over the real estate classifieds. I hoped she was talking about a vacation home. In our April 2 Notes from the Field we misprinted the e-mail address of Microsoft's benchmark feedback mailbox. The correct address is bnchfdbk@microsoft.com. Send tips to cringe@infoworld.com. MORE > SPONSORED WHITE PAPERS 
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