See . This is the brilliance of the show. I say always keep them running. All the time running, run. Run. Run, yasmine, run like the wind. In the 90s, were going to revolutionize Human Communication using desktop computers. Youve got mail. What is the worldwide web . In the world of computers its Kill Or Be Killed. Please welcome bill gates. Do you agree or disagree you have a monopoly . Check out windows 95. This is imac. Its a technological revolution thats taking the way we do everything from making friends to falling in love. When the new millennium arrives so will a technological tidal wave. Computers were in 1990 a disconnected device. It was a brick, right . That sat in your house and let you do Amazing Things that youd 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 and were still not really connecting these people using these powerful tools together. Apple was in a period of decline. Steve jobs quit in kind of a Temper Tantrum in 1985. And he 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 . Well, why did i leave apple . I was asked to leave. Yeah, i was asked to leave apple. I was planning on spending the rest of my life there but didnt work out that way. Steve jobs was a genius, but one of the reasons he got moved out of his job was 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 to be derived from software that the Operating System could be the most valuable piece of real estate in the whole Computing Business was something not understood by almost anybody in the Computer Industry apart from bill gates. 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 the personal computers today. Microsoft was making a lot of money then. They were charging 200, 300, 400 for say a word processing package that 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 that 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. Had great parents. Family values. But he was a killer. He basically was a ruthless guy, and so was microsoft. No, no, no, somebodys confused, somebodys just not thinking. Theres no way. You guys never understood, you 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. Ive never heard any of these things. You know, youre saying like knife fight. Thats silliness. Its childish. I mean, why be a mouthpiece for that kind of silliness . Im done. Can i just ask you one more question, bill . No, i dont think so. I remember one time interviewing gates and i said, microsoft owns the world right now. Do you worry about that . He said i worry about it every single night. I go to bed thinking what have i not thought about. Now its starting to dial. And now i am in. It spans the globe like a super highway. It is called internet. The net began 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 a really dorky, hard to use, and extremely nerdy thing. None of your friends would have been on this. Just fellow people in tech. The internet really was not a huge factor in the early 90s. But netscape changed things. Theyre calling him the next bill gates. 24yearold mark andreessen, 15 months ago andreesen fresh out of the University Of Illinois helped start a Company Called netscape. At 11 00 a. M. This morning, the companys stock went public and wall street went bonkers. So what does netscape produce that now makes the Company Worth 2. 9 billion . This, the netscape navigator, software which makes it easy for people to connect to the Global Computer Network called the internet. Microsoft has a long history of feeling threatened by hot new upstarts. You could easily 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, watch them, watch them. Take every one of their good ideas and make it one of our good ideas. Microsoft came down and essentially said to netscape, hey, you know, we can be friends or we can be enemies and if were going to be friends, thats great. Youll get all the advantages of working with microsoft in a million ways and youll be on the home screen of a lot of computers or we can compete. If were going to compete, well do whatever is required to kill. Some people believe you have an infinite appetite for power that youre the embodiment of a button that was around during the 1980s that says, i want it all and that you want to eat up your competitors. Is that unfair . It doesnt ring any bells with me. A look at the Internet and how it led to the dark side of the tech boom in the form of hackers, online predators and the proliferation of pornography. My wifes little bundle of joy. Who i just adore. Open to the armed forces, the dod, veterans and their families. Navy federal credit union. Can make you feel unstoppable. But mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. Help take control by talking to your doctor. Ask about vraylar. Vraylar is approved for the acute treatment of manic or mixed episodes of bipolar i disorder in adults. Clinical studies showed that vraylar reduced overall manic symptoms. Vraylar should not be used in elderly patients with dementia due to increased risk of death or stroke. Call your doctor about fever, stiff muscles, or confusion, which may mean a lifethreatening reaction, or uncontrollable muscle movements, which may be permanent. Side effects may not appear for several weeks. High cholesterol and weight gain; high blood sugar,
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savvy people. Prodigy was for shopping and aol had a vision to get everyone connected. The first one. 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. Compuserve charged by the minute. It was like a taxicab. Aols invention was to forget that and charge 19. 95 a month all you can eat. That changed everything because now you could afford to be on the internet all you wanted. You didnt have to be a researcher. You could dial on to aol. Aol was specifically designed to be point and click. Steve case is the president of America Online. I interviewed him via computer. And george asked, what are the most popular America Online features now. He responds the real focus for us is on promoting interactivity. Whats the very best thing about it . I think being able to communicate with just about anyone anywhere. One of the things that aol realizes is that America Online cant be all 200 plus million
people at once. You need little neighborhoods so chat rooms become Internet Neighborhoods where people who share interests, create their own little space. You can either click on the chat button up here or go to the people connection, thats what America Online calls it and when you get here, click on list rooms to find different categories of rooms. When i was a kid, i didnt know any other black gay people. The only people i knew why the folks that i met on America Online. I didnt come out to my mother till 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 cyberspace have come up with little signs made out of Punctuation Marks called emoticons. You were using text to have a conversation that felt like a facetoface communication. You could see the start of this 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 . Jerry yang and david filo liked spending hour after hour discovering interesting places on the internet. That is how they stumbled on to a fortune. Their Million Dollar idea is called yahoo. 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 after rednecks, yahoos. Yahoo was an exercise in organizing the internet. It quickly became the leading way to find things. It was a directory based system. It wasnt a search based system. The idea was to curate the whole web. Wall street now values yahoo
at around 700 million even though its barely profitable. With the success of netscape and the growth of these upstarts yahoo, there was this energy that was not all in seattle. Its not really Silicon Valley versus whats going on in redmond, washington. Its more mankind versus microsoft. Silicon valley is just one outpost against the evil empire to the north. This is Silicon Valley, the Heart And Soul of the nations computer business. 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 up in redmond. And its not just a cultural clash, an economic clash, technological clash, a clash for power. Bill gates had to turn microsoft like a super tanker around to have it address the internet. The way they did that was by coming up with Internet Explorerwhich they presented as the worlds best browser. It wasnt. Microsoft 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. Five, four, three, two, one, zero. 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 windows 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. This is jennifer aniston. Im matthew perry. Were here to see mr. Bil gates on a possible starring role in the video guide to Microsoft Windows 95. All of the employees have been invited to a huge party in a tent on the microsoft campus. Guess what song we could hear blairing out . You got it, 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. Getting the Rolling Stones to allow their music to be used in the ad launch tonight is the sign of a company at the peak of its powers. The challenge for microsoft is to stay there with the race now on to exploit the internet, it may soon be microsofts turn to fear the competition. Ive been running hot, you got me Ticking Gonna blow my top overall 1 rated, weathers it all. Find our most advanced formula exclusively at the home depot. When heartburn hits. Fight back fast with tums smoothies. It neutralizes stomach acid at the source. Tum tum tum tum tums. Smoothies. And introducing new tums sugarfree. We let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. Them, not so much. We let you keep an eye on your business from anywhere. The others . Nope get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call or go online today. Apple computer, a pioneer in the personal computers and Software Business has fallen on hard times after reporting a big quarterly loss it, decided to lay off 1300 workers. How do you feel about whats happened to apple . Did it have to turn out the way it did. Its hard to predict these things. You thought about this. This is not a subject thats unfamiliar to you. Yeah, it is. Its sort of ancient history to me right now. I dont really think about this stuff anymore. Apple and microsoft duke it out and netscape and microsoft duke it out and its a spectator
sport. In the mid1990s, apple had a couple more ceos, none of whom grasped the vision of apple. As a result, the company did worse and worse as the decade progressed. With big losses in the last quarter, with Profit Margins shrinking, apple seems destined for a takeover. This is a computer that even has fan clubs. I just love the apple. And i always have, and i cant really say why. Everyone was rooting for apple to somehow survive. It wasnt at all clear that apple would be around at the end of the 1990s. The troubled Apple Computer company may republican to its core in an effort to boost sagging sales. Apple reportedly will name its cofounder steve jobs as its new chairman. Jobs will replace the chairman who 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 and so he remade the company the way he wanted. And 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 needed someone to come in and say kill that project, kill that project. Thats stupid. Consolidate that. And focus the company. Id like to announce one of our first partnerships today, a very, very meaningful one and that is one with microsoft. Were very, very happy about it. Were very, very excited about it. And i happen to have a special guest with me today via satellite downlink. I dont think steve jobs has ever experienced you know before
or after that just people going boo, no. Microsoft represented everything that these hardcore apple fans hated. If we want to move forward, see apple healthy and prospering again, we have to let go of a few things here. We have to let go of this notion for apple to win, microsoft has to lose. Okay . 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 Point Of View was that apple would include microsofts browser in all macintoshes. That was the last piece. Now he had domination of the browser world. Microsoft says Internet Explorer just makes it easier to get around the web but when you hit a button to Access Services for travel, entertainment, news and the like, you find sites owned by microsoft and thats what the government is worried about. Over the next few years,
americans may be buying billions of dollars in goods and services through the internet. And thats a market too important the government says for one company to act as a gatekeeper. The u. S. Justice department asked a Federal Court today to fine Microsoft Corporation a record 1 million a day. The complaint against microsoft came from executives at netscape, a Fast Growing Software Company that struck gold with its web browser but microsoft began giving away