THE DIGITAL DIVIDE HITS REDMOND

“In this period that you have to say is the most prosperous the nation has ever been in, we can still look and see some pretty stark divides. The opportunities that are out there are not as equal as they should be.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, perhaps alluding to the hard choice his workers will face between working for the boring old OS company and the sexy applications company, ZDII, 8 June 2000