WE’RE PAST DENIAL AND INTO GRIEF, OKAY?

“Although we think PCs will remain the central device of the information revolution, we certainly admit that there will be other devices.”

Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, detailing a new strategy in much the same way his colleague Paul Maritz admitted on the stand in the antitrust trial that he was, in fact, a Microsoft executive, San Jose Mercury News, 23 July 1999