The secret of Bill Gates success
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversAs Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn't do that let Microsoft get ahead.
"Most of our competitors were very poorly run," he tells Fiona Bruce, for The Money Programme.
"They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together. They did not understand how to go around the world."
Sir Alan Sugar, one of Britain's computer pioneers with his Amstrad range, testifies to Microsoft's global mobility even as a comparatively small company in the 1980s.
Amstrad, in Brentwood, Essex, was visited by a Microsoft salesman - or "mid-Atlantic smoothie" as Sir Alan describes him - who came to sell Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system.
Sir Alan declined, telling the salesman he was quite happy with the rival DR-DOS system from Digital Research for his new computer, explaining that "we're a consumer electronics manufacturer here, we're not a bunch of geeks, we don't give a sh**".
But the Microsoft man wouldn't take no for an answer, and "was constantly coming back each day" to the Amstrad offices, Sir Alan says, until a deal was done.
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Comments(3)
gates real secret to his success was that he knew how to write a contract that had
trapped manufacturers into paying royalties for winders whither they included a copy or
not with each system.....
bill gate is just smart!
gates made the jump to bigtime by selling his candy bhutt to nsa/pentagon for promotion
to their tame monopolist about a decade before other it/comms companies got in on the hot
gestapo spying game.
thanks for nothing bill, you traitor, now foad!
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His real secret...
By sjc1963 on 21.06.2008 - 03:06