Word: microsoft
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play music downloading has finally dawned. Spurred on by the MusicNet deal, Sony and Vivendi Universal hastily announced that their licensing service, known as Duet, had found its first customer in the shape of Yahoo. MTV.com said it had done its own deal with all five major labels. And Microsoft hopped on the bandwagon with the radio-style site MSN Music. Result: in just one week "the landscape changed 100%," says Eric Scheirer, digital-music analyst at Forrester Research...
...computer users who buy machines with these systems preloaded should have a relatively stress-free experience. Microsoft and Apple have made navigation a breeze. They've grouped control panels together in a way that actually makes sense, and both give you more options than you'll ever need for arranging your files and folders. No, the headaches are going to come when veteran users install one of these beauties and then try to lead their computer lives as if nothing had changed...
...course, this is why pencils have erasers and operating systems have betas. Microsoft promises to make XP compatible with any device you can imagine by launch day. Then again, the brightest lights in Redmond couldn't fix my problems over two days of lengthy conference calls...
...exception to the trend is Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who upped his giving from $2.4 billion in 1999 to $5 billion in 2000. This staggering largesse came despite the fact that the value of Microsoft stock fell 63% last year. It leaves Gates with a fortune of only $60 billion...
...think we may have horribly misinvested our money in the past decade, pouring it into research and development for Intel and Microsoft and Amazon. When I was a kid and we went through a boom, people put their money in cocaine and models and German cars. I don't think it helped, but it made for better conversation than going on about the price you bought Yahoo...