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>> 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. apart from bill gates. >> people didnt get how much >> today were 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 th...

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 didnt 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 by anybody not in the computer industry. apart from bill gates. >> today were introducing microsoft wi...

Called a lost decade when you look at the quantity of jobs lost in manufacturing, housing, construction, hundreds of thousands of many time good paying jobs. are they gone forever? have they vanished really? >> not all. some will come back. construction, some parts of manufacturing. certainly a lot of the professional services, some of those will come back but certainly not all of them and there will be other good high-quality jobs in their place that require somewhat different skills. >> like w...

Sector. and democrats focus on the need for greater federal investment and infrastructure. the truth is both sides are right. the united states is losing competitiveness to other countries. 20 years ago americas corporate tax rate was the lowest in the industrialized world. today it is the second highest and heres the key point. we didnt raise ours. other country trips lowered theirs. companies can now easily base themselves or grow their operations like singapore, and south korea, germany, chin...

The computer industry and why al gore may not have invented the internet, darpa did. and on and on. federal spending on research and development is still much too low. our goal should be to double it in the next three years. if obama sets out a program that will make america more competitive for private business and couples it with a push for massive new funding for research technology, digital infrastructure, the smart grid and other such projects, he will be marrying two good economic ideas. a...