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Business 2.0: Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 25, 2004

[ Thanks to Miles
Lane
for this link. ]

“Blake Ross is lounging at his parents’ Florida Keys condo,
thinking ahead to his first day back at Stanford. His goal for his
sophomore year: nothing less than to ‘take back the Web’ from
Microsoft.

“You might think the shy 19-year-old is outmatched. Think again.
Ross, a software prodigy who interned at Netscape at age 14, is the
lead architect behind Mozilla’s Firefox–a revolutionary new
browser that’s catching on the way Mosaic did in 1993…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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