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Context Magazine: Looming Larger, a Steve Ballmer interview
"The computing model underlying the use of the Web was really based on a 1970s model. All the processing occurred on a server, and users got just a snapshot of information via their browsers. All the great power and processing of the personal computer wasn’t really being used. We had a one-way model. Information was broadcast, but users couldn’t do enough to manipulate the information on their own or use the information to collaborate with others. The dot-com failures are a testament to the limited technical capabilities of the one-way model, which make it hard to provide increasing value to consumers and business customers."

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