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Microsoft: Extending its tentacles
Oct 20th 2001 | SAN FRANCISCO
>From The Economist print edition
As it launches an array of new products, the software giant is changing, and yet its basic instincts are staying much the same
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A LESS tenacious company might have cancelled the event. But not Microsoft, the world's largest software company. On October 25th, it will release the new version of its flagship computer operating system, Windows XP, at a splashy launch in a theatre in New York. “We want this event to help remind the world that New York still represents strength and determination,” Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder and chief software architect, said recently.
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