The future of Microsoft: today Windows, tomorrow the world.
In just over a decade, Microsoft has become the biggest software company in the world. Chairman and cofounder Bill Gates has turned it into the IBM of the 1990s. Now, it has to avoid falling as IBM did. It must not only stay ahead of its current rivals but predict where the market is going and di...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 327; pp. 25 - 28 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
5/15/1993
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