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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (20019)	6/14/1998 8:38:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Bill G. saw a computer on every desktop back when computers wher only mainframes and mini's. Read what you have typoed, Reggie. Time for a little context elaboration, independent of the ineffable Mind of Reg(TM). From my old-time favorite source: And by the way, the unabridged version of that famous Gates motto is: "a computer on every desk and in every home, all running Microsoft software." (from around.com, always readily available in you-know-whose profile here) The Mind of Reg(TM), operating in cheesy high school debate mode, prefers the Encarta version. "Innovative" Microsoft has gone a long way with its various bought and cloned products, the early PC killer apps word processor and spreadsheet, and the bought elsewhere DOS and Web Browser. But brilliant Bill had his eye on the monopoly prize right from the start. He's just a software engineer, you know, that's why he's my hero. Cheers, Dan.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (20019)	6/15/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>> The pc revolution was a new paradigm as well. You are not giving MSFT credit where credit is due. Bill G. saw a computer on every desktop back when computers were only mainframes and mini's.<<< So did we all. I remind you that Bill and Paul went to work for somebody who had already invested his own money in the business as their first step, and learned there (at Altair, I vaguely recall.) BTW, Paul went there first, so who was it that had the most 'insight'? Tens of thousands of us jumped into the business at the same time, after the 8080 and 6502 and so on were developed. But we were the 2.5th generation at the earliest, the first were the Personal Computer kit folks like Ohio Scientific and the S100 folks like altair etc were next, along with the gamers like atari. Then came apple and CPM and basic-80 and so on. 3 generations of products and level of sophistication and commercialization in 3 years. Bill had one stroke of insight and it was this: It is better for making money to market first and wide than to have the best product. Jump in front of that new industry accelerating to lightspeed no matter how. This is what the rest of us mostly 'missed'. Including the guy who gave them their first break in the business, who went broke, (and is a family physician now, and probably much happier.) Cheers, Chaz