"A number of them described the company's overall strategy as "integrated innovation," a reference to the drive to add a continual stream of features and services to Microsoft's Windows and Office software businesses.

"It shouldn't be necessary for people to buy additional products for their secure infrastructures," Mr. Gates said."

so much for that whole going to court thing, and being ruled a monopoly, due to adding / tying in additional software into windows to wipe out the competition. don't worry about that, lets just carry on doing what we always do... interesting article here.

"Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers now crash more than twice each day."

and that's just the PCs that bother reporting the errors, what about the people (with win98 etc) that don't have that feature or those that aren't connected to the net...

"Mr. Gates said the company was considering the possibility of charging for some of its software updates that are now made available free over the Internet."

It looks like they are copying off Apple again...