we re here to see mr. gates on a possible video guide to microsoft windows 95. all of the employees have been invited to a huge party in a tent on the microsoft campus. guess what song we could hear. reporter: you got it, rolling stones, start me up. windows 95 was the most successful software launch to this day. everybody whether they really wanted to nor not went out and got windows 95. getting the rolling stones to allow their music to be used in the ad launch tonight is the sign of a company at the peak of its powers. while the challenge for microsoft is to stay there with the race now on to exploit the internet, it may soon be microsoft s turn to fear the competition. i ve been running hot, you got me ticking gonna blow my top e arm of your glasses. abracadabra. the stage is yours. step two: choose la quinta.
apple and microsoft duke it out and netscape and microsoft duke it out and it s a spectator sport. in the mid-1990s, apple had a couple more ceos, none of whom grasped the vision of apple. the company did worse and worse as the decade progressed. with profit margins shrinking, apple seems destined for a takeover. this is a computer that even has fan clubs. i just love the apple. and i always have, and i can t really say why. everyone was root fog are apple to somehow survive. it wasn t at all clear that apple would be around at the end of the 1990s. the troubled apple computer company may republican to its core in an effort to boost sagging sales. apple reportedly will name its co-founder steve jobs as its new chairman. he will replace the chairman who was ousted earlier this month. steve came over to apple,
memorandum written by gates three weeks before that meeting. i think there is a very powerful deal of some kind we can do with netscape, gates wrote. we can even pay them money buying some piece of them or something. when i covered the trial, one of the things the judge said to me is he didn t believe bill gates. that deposition was instrumental in shaping the judge s decision. i ve never seen a stamp like that, never used a stamp like that. haven t you seen stamps like that on every one of the documents you ve been shown during this deposition? can you get me all the exhibits? just a waste of time. it is a waste of time. technology is hard to understand. their pitch to the judge was trust us. we re doing what we re doing for the consumer. the deposition made him and the company look like they were not trustworthy. because this deposition and the snippets of it that played out day after day on national
from that to make a profit. the daily volume, 3.7 million shares. we are almost a $2 billion company. people love these stocks. anything that has dotcom or net in its name, it goes like hot cakes. it s billed as the earth s biggest bookstore. not just the country s but the earth s. but you can t shop there unless you have a computer. it s a virtual bookstore. books, books, and more books. that s what they do at amazon.com. if you print the amazon.com catalog, it would be the size of seven new york city phone books. in the early 90s, jeff bezos looked at what the internet could be and he decided it to be anything. he starred it at this modest ranch home in seattle in 12994, less than five years later, his idea of selling books on the certainty has grown into a multibillion dollar business. the largest physical bookstores only carry about 175,000 titles.
back in 1969 it was a tool of the pentagon. but nowadays just about anyone with a computer and a modem can join in. the internet was really dorky, hard to use and extremely nerdy thing. none of your friends would have been on this. just fellow people in tech. the internet really was not a huge factor in the early 90s. but netscape changed things. they are calling him the next bill gates. 24-year-old mark andreessen helped start a company called netscape. the company s stock went public and wall street went bonkers. so what does netscape produce? that now makes the company millions of dollars? this, the navigator, software which makes it easy for people to connect called the internet. microsoft has a long history of feeling threatened by hot new upstarts.