technological tidal wave. so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just got your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were, in 1990, a disconnected device. it was a brick, right, inside your house, that let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was, essentially, a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we are still islands, and we are still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985, and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? well, i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple
so you ve just bought your first personal computer, you ve brought it home from the store, you re unpacking it, and then comes the moment of truth. if you ve just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. it was a brick, right? that sat in your house and let you do amazing things that you d never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. now that we have all these very powerful tools, we re still islands, and we re still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. apple was in a period of decline. steve jobs quit in kind of a temper tantrum in 1985. and he went off and started a company called next. after he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. so why did you leave apple? well, why did i leave apple? i was asked to leave. yeah, i was asked to leave apple. i was planning on spe
See . This is the brilliance of the show. I say always keep them running. All the time running, run. Run. Run, yasmine, run like the wind. In the 90s, were going to revolutionize Human Communication using desktop computers. Youve got mail. What is the worldwide web . In the world of computers its Kill Or Be Killed. Please welcome bill gates. Do you agree or disagree you have a monopoly . Check out windows 95. This is imac. Its a technological revolution thats taking the way we do everything from making friends to falling in love. When the new millennium arrives so will a technological tidal wave. Computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. It was a brick, right . That sat in your house and let you do Amazing Things that youd never been able to do before but it was essentially a productivity tool. Now that we have all these very powerful tools, were still islands and were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. St
[ [ boo abouts ] i don t think steve jobs has ever experienced, you know, before or after that, just people going boo, no! microsoft represented everything that these hard-core apple fans hated. if we want to move forward and see apple healthy and prospering again, we have to let go of a few things here. we have to let go of this notion that for apple to win, microsoft has to lose. okay? there was an alliance now between these two former archrivals, and microsoft was going to invest $150 million in apple. but more important, from bill gates point of view, was that apple would include microsoft s browser in all macintoshes. that was the last piece. now he had domination of the browser world. microsoft says internet explorer just makes it easier to get around the web.
browser world. microsoft says internet explorer just makes it easier to get around the web. but when you hit a button to access services for travel, entertainment, news, and life, you find sites owned by microsoft. and that s what the government is worried about. over the next few years, americans may be buying billions of dollars in goods and services through the internet. and that s a market too important, the government says, for one company to act as gatekeeper. the u.s. justice department asked a federal court today to find microsoft corporation a record $1 million a day. the complaint against the soft came from executives at netscape, a fast-growing software company that struck gold with its web browser, but microsoft began giving away its own browser and required computer manufacturers to offer it with windows. what they are able to do is they are able to illegally, we believe, use that monopoly power to block petition.