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Bill Gates is smiling again. The boyish enthusiasm is back, and the grueling burdens of monopoly lawsuits and dot corn downturns
Bill Gates is smiling again. The boyish enthusiasm is back, and the grueling burdens of monopoly lawsuits and dot corn downturns
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2010-01-07
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Bill Gates is smiling again. The boyish enthusiasm is back, and the grueling burdens of monopoly lawsuits and dot corn downturns are receding. 【B1】
America’s best-known billionaire is back to doing what he has always done best-designing exciting new products and making barrels of money.
The launch of Office XP, a sophisticated rethink of Microsoft’s most popular business tool at the end of this May, marks merely the opening shot in a forthcoming technological blitz that Gates is serenely convinced will cement his company’s status as the unshakeable colossus of computing.
【B2】
"It’s great to see people enthused about what we are doing, "Gates happily declares.
How different it all looked a year or so ago, when the US Department of Justice won its claim that Microsoft had abused its Windows monopoly, and a court ordered the company to split itself in two. Then there was the dotcom trouble. Last year the bubble burst, dragging down the shares of all high-tech companies, including Microsoft. The rout eventually dislodged him from his status as the world’s richest man.
【B3】
During his 25 years at the helm of Microsoft, the company he founded in the garage of his home in Seattle, Gates has gone through a series of striking incarnations, from garage geek to ruthless executive to generous philanthropist.
Last year it seemed a new label might be added to the list-busted flush. Battered by the pressures of the internet revolution-and with two small children to raise, Gates handed executive control of Microsoft to his long-standing friend and colleague, Steve Ballmer.
Defeated in court and depicted by rivals as corportate Attila the Hun, he seemed bitter and angry. There were tales of him raging at the government officials he blamed for persecuting him.
【B4】
Gates turned for succour to his first love--overseeing software development.
Gates, now the Comeback Kid, is sitting on a corportate cash pile of $ 30 billion and is increasing it by $ 1 billion every month. Microsoft’s share price has rebounded 63% this year.
【B5】
He looks sure to bounce right back up the list of the world’s richest people.
The company’s legal problems are far from over, but a furious fightback has left many observers sceptical that the government will ever succeed in breaking up Microsoft. An appeals-court ruling, expected soon, is likely to overturn last year’s lower-court decision.
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微软公司是盖茨在其家乡西雅图的一间车库里亲手创建起来的。此后二十五年,他经历了一系列角色转变:从默默无闻的车库伙计到冷酷无情的公司总监,再到慷慨大方的慈善家。
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