French Microsoft employees defend Bill Gates

French Microsoft employees defend Bill Gates

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"

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Publication date : 19 October 1998