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We Weren't Trying To Just Go Public And Get Rich. There Was No Near-term Thing. It Always Was This Many-decades Thing Where There Were No Shortcuts And We'd Sort Of Put One Foot In Front Of The Other.

Microsoft Has Had Clear Competitors In The Past. It's A Good Thing We Have Museums To Document That.

What We're Really After Is Simply That People Acquire A Legal License For Windows For Each Computer They Own Before They Move On To Linux Or Sun Solaris Or Bsd Or Os/2 Or Whatever.

Software Is Inherently Complicated. If You Say To Somebody I Want An Airline Reservation System, To Really Say What You Want In Terms Of Overbooking And Fares, And Different Airlines Communicating With Each Or Schedule Changes, It's Immensely Complex. And So You Can't Write A Program That's Any Simpler Than That Full Specification.

Anything That Someone's Interested In Should Be Very, Very Easy To Call Up Onto The Screen. And In Fact The Computer Over Time Will See What You're Interested In And Make That Immediately Available Without Your Having To Be Give Any Commands At All.