Unless your name's Isaiah, prophecy is a mug's game. It's no use guessing what 2003 will hold for digital technology users. So we won't bother. Still, there's no harm in noting a few technology topics that we'd want to make predictions about, if we only had the nerve. We begin, inevitably, with Microsoft Corp., which escaped from its federal antitrust trial with a whole skin, only to get a nasty Christmas surprise from a different federal court in Baltimore. Last week, Microsoft was ordered to start including Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java software with future copies of its Windows operating system
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