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...makes the most of it. The film leaves Gates' personal story in the background, but Hall fleshes out the character by nailing the Microsoft chairman in all his scary intensity, from the whining, reedy voice to the shrunken-tortoise posture, body collapsed in on itself as if conserving all energy for a mind whose unfathomable power emerges only via his ever gleaming eyes. Whether peering over a winning poker hand in a Harvard dorm, patiently waiting out one of Jobs' flailing rages or cutting a deal with some hapless executive, Hall never loses--or lets us lose--sight of Gates...
...launch Apple in his parents' garage; his team really did steal the Macintosh's revolutionary visual-desktop design from under Xerox's nose; Gates really did talk IBM into licensing an operating system that he didn't yet own to run the first PC; and Jobs really did trust Microsoft with the Mac prototype, never believing Gates would, at least in Jobs' view, nab his best stuff for a new program called Windows...
...demand? Since the gizmo is being sold only in the New York City area until it's distributed nationally in the fall, I'm backing the crushing-demand theory. Later, an all-you-can-eat service could keep at bay all those folks thinking of buying devices that use Microsoft's Windows CE, an operating system that competes with Palm...
...Stephen Bechtel, construction magnate --Leo Burnett, advertising genius --Willis Carrier, maker of air-conditioning systems --Walt Disney, creator of animation and multimedia empire --Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co. --Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft --A.P. Giannini, architect of nationwide banking --Ray Kroc, hamburger meister --Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon --William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo...
TIME reported last week that Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold's leave of absence was, according to some sources at the company, engineered by president Steve Ballmer. Myhrvold, who has occasionally written for TIME, assures us--and other Microsoft executives agree--that his leave was his own choice and that he has not been spending half his time on his own outside interests. We did not mean to spoil the joy of his well-earned leave...