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...ONENOTE Microsoft's program is set up like a digital three-ring binder for taking notes and managing research. Use it not just for business or homework projects but also for handling plans for your next vacation. You can even use Onenote to clip and annotate bits of Web pages or organize your online receipts...
Traditional print media--magazines, newspapers, books--have used a lot of paper over the past two decades trying to chronicle the phenomenal rise of William Henry Gates III and his company, Microsoft. TIME alone has had Gates on its cover three times, first in 1984 and then again in 1995 and 1996, and our library tells me that his name has appeared in 114 issues since he founded Microsoft in 1976. It is not just that Gates has become the world's richest and most famous businessman. In building Microsoft, he has come to symbolize the software and computing industries...
...that run on that operating system (iTunes, iMovie, Safari Web browser, etc.). It also makes the consumer-electronics devices that connect to all those things (the rapidly multiplying iPod family), and it runs the online service that furnishes content to those devices (iTunes Music Store). If you smooshed together Microsoft, Dell and Sony into one company, you would have something like the diversity of the Apple technological biosphere...
That isn't the only way to run a business. Look at Microsoft. Bill Gates focused on operating systems. He didn't worry about hardware. He gave Windows to anybody who could pony up a licensing fee, and he let them worry about hardware. Result? He devoured the market and made the biggest killing in the history of killings. Apple kept its Mac operating system on Apple hardware almost exclusively. It may have won a moral victory--or a technological one or an aesthetic one. But business-wise, it got the bits kicked...
...that without technological measures protecting their intellectual property, vagrant Harvard students (and those at comparable institutions) will steal it and deprive them of revenue.They key word in the previous paragraph is “proprietary”: everyone has their own version of DRM. Many stores use a Microsoft standard, but Apple uses their own (called FairPlay), and that’s the one iPods are equipped to deal with. That means that any of the twenty million and some-odd iPod owners looking to buy music online have only one option for most songs. And once they?...