Windows of Opportunity?

Regarding the news that Bill Gates “harbors directing ambitions” (“Dream Team May Get New Player--Bill Gates,” Dec. 2):

The Industry is breathlessly awaiting the announcement of Spielberg’s animated version of “Windows95,” with a soundtrack by longtime Geffen clients the Eagles. “Somebody’s gotta do it,” said a source close to Spielberg.

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Katzenberg is rumored to be hard at work on another of his famous memos. Sources say that the memo decries the current computer industry practice of using new, tight, fresh, expensive computer code when there is plenty of bulky, slow, older, cheaper code around that doesn’t have an agent. “Microsoft is way ahead of the curve on this already,” says a Dream Team executive who declined to be named.

SCOTT WYANT

Culver City