Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday this week. I've been a keenly interested observer for most of that history. I started writing about Microsoft technologies as a full time job more than three decades ago, and I was an enthusiastic early adopter of the company's products for a decade before that. Thinking back on that history brings back a flood of memories. When one talks about Microsoft, it's tempting and easy! to focus on the numbers and the milestones. Revenue. Gross...
