Microsoft: The empire strikes back
Observer | at | by Mike
Say what you like about Bill Gates, but you've got to give him full marks for persistence. Ever since he's been able to talk, his goal has been worlddomination. In 1975 he was talking about 'a computer on every desk, and every one running Microsoft software'. Walk around the office blocks of any city on Earth at night, and look into the windows. What do you see? Millions of desktop computers, 99.9 per cent of them running Windows. World Domination, Release 1.0. Yet just as Gates achieved his childhood dream, the goal posts moved. The internet arrived, and Gates didn't see it coming. As the importance of the standalone PC began to erode, Gates decided that Microsoft would have to control the net, too. Thus was born World Domination, Release 2.0 - to be achieved by having every computer running a Microsoft browser and every server running Microsoft internet server software.