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Thursday, June 21, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2777283,00.html Bill Gates: Designing your future By Mike Ricciuti, Special to ZDNet June 20, 2001 4:45 AM PT An appeals court will soon rule whether Microsoft is an illegal monopoly that should be split in two. But that has not sidetracked Chairman Bill Gates from forging ahead with a plan to dominate the market for Web services. Gates, who is also Microsoft's chief software architect, has ceded much of the day-to-day management of the company to Chief Executive Steve Ballmer. But it's clear that he still sets Microsoft's agenda. At a Microsoft-sponsored conference for software developers this week in Atlanta, Gates drummed up support for the company's Web services technologies, .Net and HailStorm. The two initiatives have drawn fire from privacy advocates who contend the plans will make Microsoft the keeper of vast amounts of consumers' personal data. In an exclusive interview, Gates explained why he thinks HailStorm is worth paying for, why Microsoft has attacked open-source development, and where the company is spending its $5 billion-per-year research and development budget....
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