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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I think that I first heard of it about Wang, and business periodicals praised it back when Wang seemed to have potential.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:08:48 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [TLUG]: Re: [TLUG]: Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>| From: Stephen <<A href="mailto:stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" ymailto="mailto:stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org">stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org</A>><BR><BR>| This is a link to an article in the current issue if
Vanity fair:<BR>| <BR>| <A href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer.print" target=_blank>http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer.print</A><BR><BR>Actually it is a link to a teaser for an article. I think you have to<BR>buy the paper copy to read it. But maybe there is a way you can pay<BR>to read an electronic copy. Or maybe you can wait for some<BR>cooling-off period and then the article will appear online.<BR><BR>In that teaser was a link to an excerpt of Paul Allen's memoir. I<BR>thought that was interesting. The excerpt is an article from the May<BR>issue.<BR>--<BR>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <A href="http://gtalug.org/" target=_blank>http://gtalug.org/</A><BR>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<BR>How to UNSUBSCRIBE: <A
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