"During the Internet Boom era, some digital wag linked Bill Gates’ holdings in Microsoft to a real-time stock ticker and posted the service on a Web page. Thus, you could see Gates’s fortune rise and fall in real time: up $10 million, down $5 million, up $5 million, down $1 million, up $15 million — and up and up and up. Besides the bizarre and even masochistic pleasure in watching the numbers, there was a lesson in this: there is great economic value in owning a software platform, a suite of tools and services upon which third parties write applications. Get enough popular applications and everybody, and that means literally everybody, has to purchase your platform. As the Microsoft vision states, a computer in every home, a computer in every office — all of them running Microsoft software."
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