The Info Tech 100: The World's Best-Performing Information Technology Companies

摘要

If you had to pick the world's hardest-charging technology company, which one would it be? For most of us, the initial choice would be Microsoft Corp. Bill Gates & Co. have honed aggressiveness into a near-art— with amazing results. The company has a stranglehold on desktop software. It has gained the upper hand in Internet browsers. It boasts $17.2 billion in cash, the most of any U. S. company. And now it's shoehorning its software into everything from TV set-top boxes to burglar alarms.