Microsoft as America.
He does not rock on his chair when thinking (and sometimes saying) that a reporter's question is the height of stupidity, as Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder does. Nor does he jump about a stage, screaming "I love this company", like Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive. Craig Mundie, the softw...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 368; no. 8334; pp. 65 - 66 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
7/26/2003
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