文档介绍：WISDOM IN A NUTSHELL
PRESENTS
INSIDE THE GURU MIND SERIES
Bill Gates
Genius Of The Software Revolution And
Master Of The Information Age
By
Robert Heller
Published By Dorling Kindersley Ltd., London 2001
ISBN: 078945159X; 1st edition (April 1, 2000)
112 pages
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Bill Gates
Forming Alliances: The Key to ess
In the early years, Microsoft needed IBM more than IBM needed Microsoft. As IBM
sought ways to exclude “clones” from the PC market, Gates protected his
partnership with IBM by co-developing OS/2 and offering IBM the essor to MS-
DOS, an operating system called Windows.
“We’d lost the chance to make Windows and OS/patible, and because we’d
lost the struggle to make OS/2 run on modest machines, it only made sense to
continue to develop Windows.”
- The Road Ahead
IT Changes Absolutely Everything
Entering the Web Race
Miscalculating the Popularity of the
When the first website was launched in 1993 scape Navigator was
introduced to the world, Bill Gates did not foresee the impact that the
would have on consumer behavior. Gates had correctly predicted that the
presence of the PC in every home and the routine use of e-mail, but he had not
anticipated the pace at which the change would occur. By 1999, the quasi-
monopoly of Microsoft was threatened with the emergence of new software,
hardware munication standards.
ments on the value of the , “the ability to find information and
match people mon interests pletely new…The creates a
new universal space for information sharing, collaboration, merce.”
Changing Workstyle and Lifestyle
Predicting Technological Advanc