You just bought your first personal computer, youre unpacking it and then comes the moment of truth. If you have just bought your first personal computer, this show is for you. Computers were disconnected device. It was a brick. And it let you do Amazing Things you have never been able to do before, but it was essentially a productivity tool. Now that we have all these very powerful tools, were still islands. Were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. Steve jobs had a temper tantrum and went off and started a Company Called next. After he left, there was a sequence of pretty boring, unimaginative corporate leadership that followed him. Why did you leave apple . I was asked to leave. I was asked to leave apple. I was planning on spend the rest of my life there. Steve jobs was a genius, but one of the reasons he got moved out of his job is because he was spending huge amounts of money on projects that, for the most 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 apart from bill gates. Today were introducing Microsoft Windows version 3. Bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, 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 the personal computers today. Microsoft was making a lot of money then. They were charging 400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. Hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. Of course, he does have at least one secret. But well fix that. Is it true you can leap over a chair from a standing position. It depends on the size of the chair, but this chair, probably so. Yes i took a step before i did it. Thats okay. Bill gates wasnt just one thing. He was a brilliant guy, great parents, value families, but he was a killer. He basically was a ruthless guy. So was microsoft. Somebody is confused. Somebody is just not thinking. Theres no way. Well figure it out. You guys never understood the first thing about this. A lot of people make the analogy that competing with bill gates is like playing hardball. Id say its more like a knife fight. I have never heard any of these things. Youre saying knife fight. Thats silliness. Its childish. Why be a mouthpiece for that kind of silliness. Im done. Can i ask you one more question . I dont think so. I remember one time interviewing gates and i said, microsoft owns the world right now. You worry about that . He said i worry about that every single night. I go to bed thinking what have i not thought about. Now its starting to dial. Now i am in. It spans the globe like a super highway. Its called internet, the net. Back in 1969 it was a tool of the pentagon. But nowadays just about anyone with a computer and a modem can join in. The internet was really dorky, hard to use and extremely nerdy thing. None of your friends would have been on this. The internet really was not a huge factor in the early 90s. But net skap changed things. They are calling him the next bill gates. 24yearold Mark Andreessen helped start a Company Called net skap. The companys stock went public and wall street b went bonkers. So what does net skap produce . This, the navigator, software which makes it easy pr people to connect called the internet. Microsoft has a long history of feeling threatened by hot new upstarts. You could ease ily argue that bill gates game plan was world domination. These guys can be taken. But the only way were going to take them is by studying them. Know what they know, do what they do, watch them. Take every one of their good ideas and make it one of our good ideas. Microsoft cake down and said to netscape, we can be friends or enemies. If were going to be friends, thats great. Youll be on the home screen of a lot of computers or we can compete. Were going to basically do whatever is required to kill you. Sosm people believe you have an appetite for power. You are the embodiment of a button in the 1980s that said i want it all and you want to eat up your competitors. Is that unfair . It doesnt ring ay bells with me. We dont just want to watch games cable gives us. We want all the teams, no matter where we live with directv nfl sunday ticket. We want falcons in new york. Jets in la. 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They have all got electronic mail address on Computer Systems linked to the internet. Who are these other people that are on it . How did they get on it . Who regulates and decides who gets on this highway and who doesnt . The services were talking about are commercial services. You spend money to get on there. Theres no regulation opinion you use your phone line and get online. It was for the tech savvy people. Prodigy was for shopping. Aol was the firsz one to have the vision to get everyone connected. When i heard that sound, i cried a little bit because i knew there was a big adventure waiting for me. Welcome, youve got mail. It was like a taxicab. Aols invention was to charge had 19. 95 a month all you can eat. Now you could afford to be on the intent all you wanted. You didnt have to be a researcher. You could dial on to aol. It was designed to be point and click. Steve case is the president of America Online. I interviewed him via computer. What are the most Popular Online features now . He responds the real focus for us is on promoting interactivity. Whats the best thing . To be able to communicate with just about anyone, anywhere. Is one of the thing it is a aol realizes is that America Online cant be all 200 plus Million People at once. You need little neighborhoods. So chat rooms bm internet neighborhoods where people that Share Interests create their own space. You can click on the chat button or go to the people connection. Click on list rooms. Youll find different categories of rooms. When i was a a kid i b didnt know any other black gay people. The only people i knew are the folks i met america ob line. I didnt come out to my mother much later, but i was out on the internet. In many respects, aol was one of the first social media companies. Computer communication is not like human communication. Theres no facial expression to help you know which way something ambiguous is meant. So the isolated communicators of cyber space have come up with little signs made out of punkuation marks called e mot cons. You were using text to have a conversation that felt like a face to face communication. You could see the start of this new online culture. Its a technological revolution thats changing the way we do everything. From making friends to falling in love. He was nice. He never gave me any of the come onlines. It was always friendly. Youre telling me guys use pickup lines on a computer. Uhhuh. As the internet grows, i want to find love. I just happened to stumble on michaels address. I picked him out of the blue. I read his profile and i was completely floored. Many of the businesses of the internet work on connecting for the first time total strangers who have very narrow interests in common. Aol was what was called a wall garden. Picture this. Youre paying a monthly fee for something with a limited number of things to do. No matter how many things they put inside their garden, it could never come close to the hundreds of millions of things that would pop up on the open internet. The thing about the worldwide web is that it has no central organizing body. Its chaotic. If you are running a website, how is anyone going to find you . Stanford grad students like spending hour after hour discovering interesting places on the internet. That is how they stumbled on to a fortune. Their milliondollar idea is is called yahoo . Yahoo came in at just the perfect time. They literally made a list. It was just simply a listing. It was jerry and davids web listing. And they named it yahoo . Yahoo was an exercise organizing the internet. It kwikly became the leading way to find things. It was a directory base system. It wasnt a searchbased system. The idea was to cure rate the whole web. Values around 700 million even though the company is barely profitable. With the success of netscape and the growth of the upstarts, yahoo it was this energy that was not all in seattle. Silicon valley versus whats going on in washington. Its more mankind versus microsoft. So Silicon Valley is one against the evil empire to the north. This is Silicon Valley. Here microsoft is respected and feared as a powerful giant whose every footstep sends shivers through the entire industry. Theres this emerging war basically between the Silicon Valley culture built up around the web and the microsoft culture in redmond. Its not just a cultural glacla but an technological clash for power. Bill gate hs to turn microsoft around to have it address the internet in the way they did that was by coming up with Internet Explorer chrks they presented as the worlds best browser. It wasnt. Microsofts stuff never is the best, but it was well marketed and it was pushed and they had a lot of money behind it. Here came microsoft with its own version of a web browser built into windows 95. Their intention was to kill netscape as the browser and make Internet Explorer its replacement. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. A consumer feeding frenzy. Many Computer Stores like this one in miami opened at the stroke of midnight so customers could be the first to get their hands on windows 95. Check out window ss 95. It seems like an awful lot of fuss over a single product, but the product will have a huge impact not just on microsoft, but on the global computer industry. Were here to see bill gates in the video guide to windows 95. All of the employees of microsoft have been invited to a huge party in a tent over there on the microsoft campus. Guess what song we could hear. Rolling stones, start me up. Windows 95 was the most Successful Software launch to this day. Everybody whether they really wanted to or not, went out and got windows 95. 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Call or go to xfinitymobile. Com introducing Xfinity Mobile. A new kind of network designed to save you money. Apple computer a pioneer in the Software Business has fallen on hard times after a big kwaerlly loss it decided to lay off 1,300 workers. How do you feel . Did it have to turn out the way it did . Its hard to predict these things. Youve thought about this. It is. Its sort of ancient history to me. Apple and microsoft duke it out and netscape and microsoft duke it out. Its a spectator sport. In the mid1990s apple had a couple more ceos. As a result the company did worse and worse as the decade progressed. With bog losses in the last quarter, with Profit Margins shrinking, apple seems decembst for a takeover. This is a computer that even has fan clubs. I just love the apple. I always have. I cant say why. Everyone was rooting for ap toll survive, but it wasnt clear that apple would be around at the end of the 1990s. The troubled Apple Computer company may return to its core in an effort to boost sagging sales. Apple will name steve jobs as its new chairman. He was ousted earlier this month. Steve came over to apple, sold next to apple for 400 million. He had no ambitions at apple at all. But steve jobs was watching apple flounder, and he just couldnt help himself. So he remade the company the way he wanted. There was no one to oppose him because the company was exhausted. Steve jobs had exactly the abrasive but incisive personality that apple needed at that point. They need ed someone to come in say kill that project, kill that project, thats stupid, consolidate that, focus the company. Id like to announce one of our first partnerships today, a a meaningful one. Thats one with microsoft. Were very, very happy about it. Were very excited about it. I happen to have a special guest with me today via satellite down link. I dont think steve jobs has ever experienced before or after that people just going, boo, no. Microsoft represented everything that these hard core apple fans hated. If we want to move forward, apple healthy and prospering again, we have to let go of a few things here. We have to let go of the notion that for ap toll win, microsoft has to lose. There was an alliance now between these two former arch rivals. And microsoft was going to invest 150 million in apple, but more important from bill gates, apple would include microsofts browser in all macintoshs. That was the last piece. He had domination of the browser world. Internet explorer makes it easier to get around the web. But when you hit a button to Access Services from travel and entertainment, news and the like, you find sites owned by microsoft. Thats what the government is worried abts. Over the next few years, americans may be buying millions of dollars in goods and services through the internet. Thats a market too important, the government says, for one company to act as gate keeper. The Justice Department asked a federal court to fine Microsoft Corporation a record 1 million a day. The complaint against microsoft came from executives at netscape, a fastgrowing Software Company that struck gold with its browser, but microsoft began giving away their browser and required to offer it with windows. They are able to illegally, we believe, use that power to block competition. They are able to pay people to not youz our software. A lot of people are saying the antitrust laws are vooutvot. The counterargument is that when you begin to get lots of people to use your operating system, it becomes harder and harder for somebody else to break in to that industry. Bill gates goes before congress for the first time today. Gates is expected to face tough questions from the Senate Judiciary committee. I want to, if you dont mind, ask the audience one quest