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

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (54927)	1/6/2001 6:58:27 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

New Focus for Gates Is Consumer Electronics nytimes.com Hi Harvey. In case you missed it, this was in yestereday's paper. Bill seems pretty wired about x-box. You never know, but the margin game is going to be a little different for him selling loss-leader hardware. Indeed, William H. Gates, the Microsoft co-founder who now calls himself chief software architect, seems focused on an entirely different business as his company prepares to introduce its X-Box video-game system, its first foray into the high-stakes, high-risk consumer electronics business. In Mr. Gates's mind, winning in consumer electronics simply requires applying the same lessons the company has mastered in the computer arena. "This is about great software, and it's about evangelization," he said today in an interview in his office here. "Why did MS-DOS succeed and Microsoft Office succeed? In all those things it was about evangelization, and it was about getting great software engineers to put the pieces together. That's still at the core of this thing." Er, MS-DOS succeeded because of evangelization? Bill's always good for a laugh or two, anyway. Cheers, Dan.