057. Expanding Office in the Enterprise—Enterprise Agreements [Ch. IX]

"Unearned revenue associated with Productivity Applications and Developer products totaled $1.96 billion and $1.99 billion." MSFT annual report, 2000

Welcome to Chapter IX, taking place 1999 to 2001 where the world realized just how dependent it had become on email and the PC and when viruses became a mainstream part of the technology vernacular. In the halls of Microsoft, it became apparent that being early was as strategically deadly as being wrong. PCs sell more than 100 million units for the firs…