confidence. at a time when major computer corporations like apple are laying off 10% of their workforce, microsoft is the big exception in the computer industry. people didn t get how much value there was to be derived from software. that the operating system could be the most valuable piece of real estate in the whole computing business was something not understood by almost anybody in the computer industry apart from bill gates. [ cheers and applause ] today we re introducing microsoft windows version 3. bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, part holden caulfield from catcher in the rye. at 19, he dropped out of harvard to design computer software with his friend paul allen. they came up with a system that operates 90% of the personal computers today. microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300,
money on projects that, for the most part, never reached the market. and apple had a crisis of confidence. at a time when major computer corporations like apple are laying off 10% of their workforce, microsoft is the big exception in the computer industry. people didn t get how much value there was to be derived from software. that the operating system could be the most valuable piece of real estate in the whole computing business was something not understood by almost anybody in the computer industry apart from bill gates. [ cheers and applause ] today we re introducing microsoft windows version 3. bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, part holden caulfield from catcher in the rye. at 19, he dropped out of harvard to design computer software with his friend paul allen. they came up with a system that operates 90% of the personal computers today.
was spending huge amounts of money on projects that for the most part never reached the market, and apple had a crisis of confidence. at a time when major computer corporations like apple are laying off 10% of their workforce, microsoft is the big exception in the computer industry. people didn t get how much value there was to be derived from software that the operating system could be the most valuable piece of real estate in the whole computing business was something not understood by almost anybody in the computer industry apart from bill gates. today we re introducing microsoft windows version 3. bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, part holden caulfield from catcher in the rye. at 19, he dropped out of harvard to design computer software with
part, never reached the market. and apple had a crisis of confidence. at a time when major computer corporations like apple are laying off 10% of their workforce, microsoft is the big exception in the computer industry. people didn t get how much value there was, but the operating system could be the most valuable piece of real estate in the computing business with something not understood apart from bill gates. today we re introducing microsoft windows version 3. bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, at 19 he dropped out of harvard to design computer software with his friend paul allen. they came up with a system that operates 90% of the personal computers today. microsoft was making a lot of
most part, never reached the market. and apple had a crisis of confidence. at a time when major computer corporations like apple are laying off 10% of their workforce, microsoft is the big exception in the computer industry. people didn t get how much value there was to be derived from software. that the operating system could be the most valuable piece of real estate in the whole computing business was something not understood by almost anybody in the computer industry apart from bill gates. [ cheers and applause ] today we re introducing microsoft windows version 3. bill gates part thomas edison, part henry ford, part holden caulfield from catcher in the rye. at 19, he dropped out of harvard to design computer software with his friend paul allen. they came up with a system that operates 90% of the personal computers today.