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

To: Russ who wrote (45529)	5/27/2000 9:02:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 74651

I guess they won't believe *anything until they see it in Soldier of Fortune. -JCJ

To: Russ who wrote (45529)	5/27/2000 11:25:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 74651

But Russ, The Economist has always been Bill's favorite. As to Marx, I think poor Slivka converted him to the communist cause or something. An amusing bit from a few weeks back: One morning in February, Patty Stonesifer and I drove from Seattle to the Microsoft campus in Redmond to talk with Gates about his philanthropy. He was, of course, looking at a computer screen in his office when we arrived. Emerging from behind his desk, he had on a pale green button-down shirt with the initials W.H.G. in light blue over the left breast, tan slacks, tan socks and brown basket-weave loafers. On the shelves and walls surrounding his workstation were pictures of Melinda and their two young children, a photograph of Einstein, several framed covers of The Economist and an aboriginal mask from Australia. We sat around a small table in the anteroom -- Gates's work and reception areas combined are about the size of a midlevel publishing executive's office in New York. Not exactly what you'd expect for a man whose company had a market value roughly equal to the gross domestic product of Spain. The Economist has been pretty hard on Bill and Co. all through this saga, but Bill's compartmentalized it all out, I think. That was from "Bill Gates's Money", NYT Magazine, April 16, 2000, viewable at nytimes.com. Quite an interesting story, totally aside from the bit I quoted. Cheers, Dan.