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Microsoft's Millennium Edition.(Software Review)(Evaluation)

Industrial Distribution, November, 2000 by Harper, Doug

The software giant's latest offering is aimed at small offices and home users

It was never easy, but these days it must be particularly tough being Bill Gates. He has to support his 39,000-member employee "family" at the same time he's attempting to keep Wall Street happy by at least maintaining, if not improving, Microsoft's annual revenue stream of $22.9 billion.

Meanwhile, he has the u.s. Justice Department trying to slice and dice his self-made empire into smaller entities.

Even in the unlikely event that it emerges unscathed from its travails with the DOJ, Microsoft still faces some serious challenges to future earnings. Since the company's largest claim to fame is predicated upon creating computer operating systems, it must...

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