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With the retirement last week of Paul Maritz, Microsoft lost a field general from the company's bitter computer wars of the 1990's.
[C15.] Microsoft Loses a Key Strategist With the retirement last week of Paul Maritz, who oversaw Microsoft's rise to operating system supremacy, the company lost a field general from the company's bitter computer wars of the 1990's.
Two books about the fall of I.B.M. and Gates' role in it have recently appeared — "Big Blues," by Paul Carroll, and "Computer Wars," by Charles H. Ferguson and Charles R. Morris — and an occasional chill runs up the spine of anyone reading them at the ease with which Gates eviscerated men much older and more experienced than he was.
In 2007 the computer wars are now nothing more than a footnote in history.
In our lifetime, the personal computer wars of the '80s and '90s may have been dominated by tech enthusiasts battling it out over standards and protocols, but ultimately consumers got interoperability and portability.
But if you're looking to waste 40 minutes on the couch this weekend, I highly recommend episode 6 of the CNN documentary miniseries "The Nineties," which is all about the computer wars and beginning of internet culture in the 1990s (duh).
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