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The Microsoft empire, however impressive it seems now, is just
in the early stages of its global expansion. The company has so
many ambitious visions for competing in so many facets of our
economic life that its wary adversaries are exaggerating just
a bit when they pose the question -- is Microsoft taking over
the world? Chris Bury, Präsentator der ABC-Nightline vom 20.10.97 On top of all Microsoft's strategic advantages, Gates and his
minions have a unity of purpose, a hyperaggressive drive, and
a long-term view that may be unmatched in the annals of capitalism. Business Week vom 19.1.98 As a schoolboy, what first captivated Bill Gates about the computer
was that he 'could give this big machine orders and it would always
obey'. We became concerned about him when he was ready for junior high
... He was so small and shy, in need of protection, and his interests
were so very different from the typical sixth grader's. Bill Gates Senior (Time 2/97) Microsoft's goal is domination of the global information business,
which is to say all business. Phone companies, cable television
companies, post offices, stock exchanges, bankds, treasury departments
-- all of these are viewed by Microsoft as future competitors. Robert X. Cringely, PBS Microsoft now is in 40 percent of American households. If they
can somehow insert themselves in as a piece of infrastructure
in the next generation of televisions, they could go to 100 percent
penetration of American households and eventually the world. Barry Randals, Analyst bei Dain Bosworth He embodies the very cultural and economic forces that have transformed
American mass media from the freest and most diverse in the world
to among the most cautious, greedy, and useless. (Hot-) Wired-Autor Jon Katz
The Economist 21/98
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