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最近国际媒体上有两则关于比尔·盖茨的新闻,串起来看相当有趣,也很值得深思。第一则新闻是根据《福布斯》杂志估计,比尔·盖茨今年再度蝉联世界首富,身价近600亿美元。第二则新闻是微软正在努力,试图阻止“美国在线-时代华纳”(以下简称AOLTW)与非微软的网络播放软件展开合作。微软警告AOLTW,在微软窗口上使用其他的网络播放软件,一定会影响操作系统的稳定。AOLTW则认为,微软又把当初对付网景的那套手段拿出来了。想当年,在浏览器的市场占有率上,先进入市场的网景已经遥遥领先微软,但微软利用其Windows操作系统的强势,硬是让自己的产品挤掉了网景。现在微软在播放软件上的打压目标虽未明说,但一般人都知道就是RealNetworks的RealPlayer。目前这套软件的用户已经突破了3 200万人,
Recently, there are two news articles about Bill Gates in the international media. They are rather interesting and worth pondering. The first news is based on Forbes magazine estimates that Bill Gates reelected the world's richest man this year, worth nearly 60 billion U.S. dollars. The second piece of news is that Microsoft is working hard to stop AOL Time Warner (AOLTW) from working with non-Microsoft webcasting software. Microsoft warned AOLTW, using other webcasting software on Microsoft Windows, will certainly affect the stability of the operating system. AOLTW believes that Microsoft once again put the set of means to deal with Netscape out. In the past, in the browser market share, the first to enter the market Netscape has been far ahead of Microsoft, but Microsoft to take advantage of its Windows operating system, just let their products squeezed out of Netscape. Now Microsoft's playing on the software to suppress the target, although not stated, but most people know that RealNetworks RealPlayer. At present, the users of this software have exceeded 32 million people,