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2 Jun 2025 Acquired The Steve Ballmer Interview
“I would say no sense of confidence about controlling the ecosystem well into the 90s before I think any of that, or at least for me.”
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- 2 Jun 2025
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- The Steve Ballmer Interview
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…It’s called this riding the bear, yeah. Ride the bear. You had to stay on. Then of course graphical user interface. It’s coming out of Xerox Park at the time, Apple’s doing their thing, and that’s another disruption, could blow everything up. I would say no sense of confidence about controlling the ecosystem well into the 90s before I think any of that, or at least for me. When did you start to feel like we’re getting out from under the thumb of IBM? And maybe walk us through a little bit the OS/2-Windows world.…
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