Misadventures with Bill

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"Bill is increasingly on the wrong side of the 80-20 rule. He can afford to essentially give away the development tools when he owns 80 percent of the developer mind share. But when his competitors cannibalize his Web services stack, free browser, and aging Office installed base to provide 80 percent of the functionality of .Net at 20 percent of the price, users can't really tell the difference."

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