MICROCOMPUTER. Microsoft, the world leader in microcomputer software, launches its new operating system "Windows 95". Report in Washington where many buyers rushed to acquire the first this new product. - At night, [overview] facade of a shop specializing in microcomputer/ customer interview queuing in front of the shop: "I’m waiting for Windows 95". - Installation of the boxes containing the software on the shelves of the store/ sales interview: "This is a good product". - TV crew filming inside the store / interview Karen, 8, who has been playing with computers since she was 2 years old. - PL crowd in store / Start of sale at midnight. - Customer interview, very proud to be in possession of the software: "I am the first in my neighbourhood". - PM store cash register. - In. P. GASSOT.
Present at the Salon des Entrepreneurs in Paris, Bill GATES takes advantage of his participation, to promote the new Windows Vista operating system. The latter is the subject of a global advertising campaign. The commentary on images of Bill GATES at the Salon des entrepreneurs, a fireworks display under the great arch of La Défense, delays with interviews with Eric BOUSTELLER, president of Microsoft France, and Juliette LAPORTE, head of software products at Surcouf.
The United States justice proposes to split the empire of Bill Gates in two: Windows on one side. Internet and software from the other, after the computer company was found guilty of violating anti-trust legislation. The Windows operating system equips nearly 90% of computers worldwide. The same is true for the Internet browser Explorer which holds 80% of the market as well as Microsoft software. In a Surcouf store in Paris, an employee and a customer express their feelings about the Microsoft monopoly: - Interview with Olivier Théveneau, head of the office sector at Surcouf in Paris: "Windows remains the product that exists on all PCs" - Interview with Joël LEFEVRE: "It’s too much. It would be necessary that there are several software that can be created without Microsoft having the monopoly... Microsoft, it’s expensive"
Meeting with Jean-Philippe COURTOIS, Managing Director of Microsoft France: Aged 33, the young boss, serving Bill Gates since 1988, has adopted the codes of the American company where the tutoiement and passion at the service of business objectives are de rigueur.
At the headquarters of the computer company Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, employees are on average 32 years old and work on average 60 hours but in an atmosphere reminiscent of a university campus: computer scientists meet outdoors, picnic, juggle and play basketball. Interviewed, 33-year-old Microsoft founder Bill GATES justifies his managerial practices: He explains that it is more convenient for him to send emails from home to his employees at any time rather than forgetting an idea.
According to an annual ranking, Microsoft is one of the companies where employees are happy to work. The secret: betting on well-being. The freedom in the schedule, a pleasant setting and the services offered (concierge, gym) decide the candidates to apply in the company. Pascal ANGEE, Benjamin GOHE and Myriam SEMERY, three Microsoft employee executives testify to these advantages.
The Microsoft company invented the MS DOS, a computer operating system that has democratized the computer previously reserved for computer scientists: everyone can now, thanks to the software developed at Microsoft, do word processing, management or play on computer. Bill GATES, one of the founders of Microsoft is aware of its success and says in an interview: "I changed the destiny of computers: instead of being very expensive and difficult to use, there are tens of millions...".
A trial of the software giant Microsoft opens in the United States. His boss, Bill GATES, the richest man in the world, is accused of violating the anti-trust law to the detriment of his competitor Netscape. In question: the use of monopoly in operating systems to impose its own browser on the Internet. Meeting in Seattle at the headquarters of the Microsoft company of two French executives who defend their boss and the company’s strategy: - Jean-François HEITZ, CFO of the company, gives his opinion on his boss Bill Gates: "When we say he wants to have 90 or 100% of the market share...that is not what motivates him". Images of the trading room for which he is responsible and where the employees make the Microsoft share grow. - Interviewed in his car, a Microsoft employee says, "We think about business especially and we think about making computers easier to use"