Bill Gates

for his hometown.
Windows takes over
Soon after Gates unveiled his Windows 3.0 program in 1990, the applications software
industry was crying uncle. Over 60 million copies of the Windows progam were sold, which
established Microsoft's operating system as the PC software standard and left companies like
Lotus and WordPerfect scrambling because they had been creating applications for IBM's
system, the OS/2. Six years after the Windows launch, Microsoft dominates the word processing
and spreadsheet mark.
Corporation as Cult
The suburban Microsoft "campus," a cluster of 35 low-rise buildings, is set among lawns,
groves of white pines and shady courtyards that make the place resemble a college. But in
contrast to the sedate intellectualism of the average college, Microsoft rewards the brusque
"math camp" mentality: a lot of cocky geeks willing to wave their fingers and yell with the cute
conviction that all problems have a right answer. Among Gates favorite phrases is "That's the
stupidest thing I've ever heard," and victims wear it as a badge of honor, bragging about it the
way they do about getting a late-night E-mail from him.
POSSESSIONS
Built into a bluff fronting Lake Washington, the home Gates has been working on for
more than four years has 40,000 square feet of living space and a vaulted 30-car garage. One of
his favorite features: two dozen 40-in. monitors will form a flat-screen display covering...

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