近来关于微软的官司被大众媒体炒得沸沸扬扬。不论是报章杂志还是广播电视都不甘落后。因特网上几乎天天有报导。上至美国总统下到黎民百姓争相发表意见。表面看来有些奇怪,莫非是媒体故意炒作?细细想来其中大有道理。其实,微软公司尽管在软件业界称老大,但它的销售额只及IBM软件销售额的70％。比起传统产业如汽车大王通用汽车公司更是小巫见大巫,还不及它的7％。然而汽车大王却没有软件巨擘那么风光。国人未必知道通用汽车公司的总裁是谁,却有不少人知道微软的比尔·盖茨,甚至还听过他的报告。为什么?道理在于软件是信息产业的核心,有人预言信息产业将成为下世纪初的第一大产业。它的发 Recently, the lawsuit against Microsoft has been stirred up by the mass media. Whether it is newspapers and magazines or radio and television are not far behind. Almost every day on the Internet. From the U.S. president to the people of Lebanon, they rushed to express their opinions. On the surface, it seems a little strange, is it the media deliberately hype? In fact, Microsoft Corp., though known as the boss in the software industry, sells only 70% of its sales of IBM software. Compared with traditional industries such as car giant General Motors, it is even less ugly and less than 7% of it. However, the car king did not have the scenery of the software giant. Chinese people may not know who the president of General Motors is, but many people know Microsoft’s Bill Gates and even heard his report. The reason is that software is the core of the information industry. Some people predict that the information industry will become the largest industry in the early next century. Its hair