Extending its tentacles; Microsoft.(Microsoft introduces Windows XP, with a series of other products awaiting their own introduction)

Economist (US), The, October, 2001

As it launches an array of new products, the software giant is changing, and yet its basic instincts are staying much the same

A LESS tenacious company might have cancelled the event. But not Microsoft, the world's largest software company. On October 25th, it will release the new version of its flagship computer operating system, Windows XP, at a splashy launch in a theatre in New York. "We want this event to help remind the world that New York still represents strength and determination," Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder and chief software architect, said recently.

Yet more than anything, Microsoft wants to remind the world that it too is back. It has been through years of internal squabbling and fighting to catch up with the Internet--and, most...

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