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To: Rambi who wrote (76973)	4/6/2000 9:00:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 108807

You are welcome, Penni. Actually, I did overstate things a bit: That $50,000 was a bit of a risk, since IBM had cancelled other microcomputer projects before so it was not the best partner to have at the time; to whom else was Microsoft going to sell QDOS? But the real guts belonged to Lowe--who was, of course, promoted and transferred elsewhere in IBM. Actually, Bill reminds me of Henry Ford. He does not hear disagreement easily; it takes a two-by-four to get through at times, which is why he almost missed the Internet: Pete had to stomp on him to get him to see. And like Henry Ford he saw the necessity of something on the order of the assembly line and brought in Charles Simonyi to make it happen at Microsoft via "meta-programmers."