Bill Gates

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This paper traces the career of computer genius, Bill Gates from his beginnings as a high school student interested in computers to the designing of his first computer with Paul Allen, the "Traf-O-Data". The paper then shows Gates' move to the development of BASIC and the founding of the Microsoft Company. The paper also examines the price Gates has had to pay for his monopoly on the computer market in the form of antitrust violations, as well as the various areas of the computer market that Microsoft covers.

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"Not all companies involved with telecommunications are interested in working so intimately with Microsoft. Nokia, the Finnish cell phone manufacturer, has its own software and a rival operating system (Taylor, 2002). If Nokia is successful, consumers will have a choice between at least two software systems for expanded telecommunicating. Motorola and Qualcomm also have their own independent plans for telecommunications software. Hewlett-Packard has come out with a hand-held computer that includes a "smart" phone. The HP Omnigo 700 can send and receive faxes and data faxes as well as short messages (Weinberg, 1995). It reminds consumers of the advent of VCR's. For some time after VCR technology developed, two formats existed -- BETA and VHS. Consumers really didn't know which one would emerge dominant for several years. Eventually, the needs of the industry as well as consumers demanded one standard format, and VHS won out."

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