Word: hobbyist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MORE THAN A DECADE HE HAS TOWERED OVER the world of computing like a boyish, tousle-haired colossus, controlling the software that runs our desktop computers and helping transform a hobbyist toy into the engine of a $100 billion industry...
Microsoft could even have difficulties in desktop computing -- a business that Gates helped nurture from a hobbyist's amusement into a $100 billion industry and that is running out of room for growth. Windows 95, a product Gates is counting on to lead his charge into online services and electronic commerce, has run into one delay after another. And now, less than three months before the program is scheduled to hit the stores, just when Gates was supposed to ride the tide of industry support behind what could very well be the next personal-computer software standard, he finds himself...