BILL Gates has seen the future of computing—and it’s the Internet. Just
weeks after Microsoft was ordered to slice its empire in two by a US court,
Gates has decided to make a beeline for the Net in a major shift of corporate
strategy.
This could help to maintain Microsoft’s dominant position, despite the court
ordering the company to split Windows from its Internet and applications
software activities. Many critics, however, don’t believe the company has
anything new to offer.
Two software launches in the past week and the demonstration of a prototype
touch-screen PC highlight Gates’s new game…
