Kinder, gentler?
To hear the voice of the new, reformed Microsoft Corporation, the one that no longer acts like a bullying monopolist but like a responsible industry leader devoted to the public good, talk to Brad Smith, its general counsel. Microsoft called a truce with Sun Microsystems, and announced that the two...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 371; no. 8375; pp. 62 - 64 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
5/15/2004
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