Microsoft

  • Authors:
  • Martin Campbell-Kelly

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Excepting only IBM, no company in the history of the computer industry has been so much written about as Microsoft, and few companies have been so completely identified with their founder, Microsoft's Bill Gates (born 1955) has been the subject of intense media interest, largely on account of his personal wealth (said to be about $50 billion of Microsoft stock in 1999), but also because of his reputation as a visionary and information-age pundit.