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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pat pasquale who wrote (24304)	6/17/1999 6:17:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

[thread:] For those of you with cable, here's a review of the Sunday movie that purports to give an inside look at Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The great Silicon Valley soap opera salonmagazine.com Jobs is presented as the Ruthless Idealist, an ex-hippie who happily drops acid, visits ashrams, dances with Hare Krishnas and visualizes his computer as a way to take down The Man (read: IBM). ... Gates comes off even worse: He is the Maniacal Misfit. This is revealed through numerous scenes in which he sits hunched over a computer, with glowing code reflecting in his lenses and his eyes burning bloodshot and frenzied behind those hideous frames. ... ... The impetus behind all these turnabouts, though, is foreshadowed in the movie's most poignantly insightful dialogue. Jobs, fresh from the launch of the Macintosh, is pitching a fit after realizing that Microsoft's new Windows software utilizes his stolen interface and ideas. As Gates retreats from Jobs' tantrum, Jobs screeches, "We have better stuff!" Gates, turning, simply responds, "You don't get it. That doesn't matter."