10 Basic Input/Output System
11 Quick and Dirty Operating System
12 Very small PC manufacturers
13 Graphical user interface
14 New Technology
15 Lucky Goldstar
16 Called baijiu, approximately 120 of deadly proof!
17 Intellectual property
18 The name contains the initials of the first names of her founders.
19 Let’s see how this holds up in 2012.
20 In February of 1962
21 Friend of the court
22 I will reveal this for the first time later.
23 According to the United Nations
24 The so-called Gore Bill
25 A scientist working at CERN
26 Everything on the Internet seemed to be free of charge.
27 Maybe this is the first time he will read about my long-ago offer?
28 King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC suffered irreplaceable casualties.
29 Lasting a total of fourteen months!
30 In computer system specific assembler code
31 A tool, which, like an interpreter, translates instructions into executable computer code
32 The one software programmers need to write executable applications for a computer platform
33 The ’94/’95 consent decree
34 The antitrust laws congress had passed in 1890
35 Hypertext markup language, the most used programming language for Internet applications
36 Often called netbooks or thin clients
37 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
38 Stands for “Gnu’s Not UNIX,” a complete and freely distributed UNIX-compatible OS
39 Translates into “Humanity towards others”
40 Intellectual property
41 World Trade Organization
42 Today he is CEO and chairman of GE.
43 German word expressing “not having the patience to sit it out on one’s flesh or behind”
44 Meaning June 30 of 2001
45 I later learned Paul Maritz had done the same.
46 The true number later discovered in a document validated by Netscape was 22 percent.
47 It extended over more than three pages in his famous 1901 book Die Buddenbrooks.
48 Attorney generals
49 I have several friends who stopped buying PCs when handheld devices became powerful enough and were fitted with rich Internet communication features.
50 A lot of them eventually were!
51 Jefferson Parish and Eastman Kodak
52 Judge Jackson, in his logic, would have labeled our plan suicide because of the famous barrier to entry, which in this case Sony and Nintendo were guarding.
53 Some of these implementations later got us awarded a joint patent.
54 Paul Maritz supposedly said this once and was chastised for it.
55 Acquired and operated since 1996 and earlier called MSN Hotmail
56 Outlook is MS’s personal information manager contained in her office suite.
57 A popular e-mail and collaborative workspace software package form the mid-1990s
58 Nine billion US dollars in 2011 alone—the largest in the IT industry
59 With 8.4 billion shares outstanding, this translates into about seven cents of profit per share.
60 In this context, I consider Steve Jobs, after running NeXT and Pixar, an Apple outsider.
61 SVP in charge of Xbox and mobile devices
62 A leading market research company
63 PCjr, IBM’s first PC launched to specifically attract consumers
64 Called SkyDrive
65 Consumer Electronic Show
66 Capable of functioning as a complete computer system on a chip (SoC)
67 Called Metro, which debuted in Windows 7–powered phones in 2010
68 Easing the transition for the nostalgic crowd, the familiar interface will still be available.
69 Called Windows 8 RT—standing for Runtime
70 Barnes & Noble’s e-book reader based on Android
71 Profit and loss
72 Storage units based on computer memory with no movable parts acting as hard drive
73 An easy to use service allowing music and streaming video downloads and subscriptions
74 A MS research project using a thin film TV screen like wallpaper
75 These type of controllers let you interact with devices through motions like hand signals
76 Initial Public Offering of stock
77 And if this principle is violated, competitors like Google march in and take market share away as we have seen with the Chrome browser
78 Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
79 A software application simulating an accounting worksheet
80 A company in business to develop and sell software for a variety computer systems
81 Defined as a hard or impossible to overcome hurdle for a competitor
82 Control Program/Monitor
83 Quick and Dirty Operating System—released as 86-DOS
84 The designator 86 indicated both OSs were to run on the Intel family of 8086 CPUs.
85 Microsoft Disk Operating System
86 A software license is a contract governing the usage or redistribution of software. In general, it does not transfer the ownership of the software from the licensor to the licensee.
87 Now called RadioShack
88 AT means Advanced Technology
89 A formula translation language suited for scientific and engineering computations
90 COmmon Business-Oriented Language suited for financial computations
91 Original equipment manufacturers stands for PC manufacturers.
92 The numbers of transistors on a CPU will double every eighteen months.
Read more at http://www.answers.com/topic/moore-s-law#ixzz1hrV9tsp5.
93 Advanced Micro Devices
94 The larger the number, the more advanced is the CPU
95 Apparently named after Steve Jobs’s daughter
96 Developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems
97 Graphic Environment Operating System
98 A programming language normally used for desktop publishing applications
99 Stands for Computer Dealers’ Exhibition
100 A GUI operating system for Commodore’s proprietary and PC-like Amiga system
101 Hard to imagine anymore. Apple’s iPod, her media player, today has millions more.
102 Comparable to a master degree in the USA
103 Large computers used in scientific and commercial applications
104 Downsized computers compared to IBM mainframes
105 We will meet him again as Apple’s chief executive officer.
Table of Contents
RESOLVE AND FORTITUDE
COPYRIGHT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
GETTING MY FEET WET
THE BUSINESS
INSIGHT THE POWER NEXUS
CLEANING HOUSE
RENEWING CUSTOMER FOCUS
DEAD ON ARRIVAL
FLYING HIGH
THE WORLD BELONGS TO ME
HISTORICAL CUSTOMER VISITS
GETTING OUT OF BONDAGE
TURBULENCE
ÉTUDE IN F-MOLL
A SERIOUS WAKE-UP CALL
CRISIS IN THE FAR EAST
PIRATES OF THE WORLD
FALLING BEHIND
AIMING
ASSIGNMENTS AND THREATS
DISRUPTIONS
UPS AND DOWNS
FRONT LINE PARTNERSHIP
RESCUING LITTLE CRITTERS
MONOPOLY ACCUSATIONS
PATENT HORRORS
THE SAGA OF BIG BLUE
A SWEETHEART DEAL
IN THE SHADOW OF CHICAGO
ALLIANCE ROUND TWO
TRUST AND VERIFY
START ME UP
MICROSOFT NEARLY MISSED IT
HURDLES BEFORE LAUNCH
ON STAGE AND BEYOND
BUSINESS “AS USUAL”
OF OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS
RUN BY COMMITTEE
COMPAQ GOING ASTRAY
A STRONGHEADED RESPONSE
INTERNET EXPLORER TO WIN
PRELUDE IN THE SENATE
ANOTHER ALLIANCE ATTEMPT
IN THE SHADOW OF THE FEDS
THE ONLY MAN BILL GATES MAY FEAR
BACK IN JACKSON’S COURT
INTERNAL POLITICS
THE BUSINESS MUST GO ON
WINDOWS 98, FINALLY
SOFTWARE MINUTEMEN
PRICE WARS
PIRACY IN CHINA
NOBODY IS IMMUNE TO FAILURE
FORGING AHEAD
JUSTICE ON THE BLOCK
TRIAL SETUP AND STRATEGIES
WITNESS PARADE
IN THE LION’S CAGE
BETRAYAL OF JUSTICE
REBUTTAL
MONOPOLY POWER
VERDICT
MY LAST HURRAH
A NEW CEO
XBOX
LATE CHALLENGES
SEARCHING FOR A SUCCESSOR
APPELLATE COURT RESPONSE
PARTING
A STATE OF DISORDER
WHAT L’AUDACE?
PC DOWN SPIRAL
A COOL RENAISSANCE TO BE RECKONED WITH!
A LAST WORD
APPENDIX: HOW MICROSOFT GOT HER STRIPES
AND HOW I EARNED MINE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES
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