[And though he stayed out of the courtroom, Gates essentially ran Microsoft's show. The government wanted to settle; Gates decided the charges wouldn't hold water, and] he'd always outfoxed the government before, ... That was a mistake. |
[Microsoft has always been] very good at what's going on in the industry, ... They could figure out where the industry is going and then turn the company around on a dime. |
[The trial changed all that, the writer says.] He's just a businessman [now], ... He's very much like a lot of the industrialists of the early part of the century. |