Hugh Pickens writes "Bill Gates, in a audition with the BBC, revealed the secret of Microsoft's success: 'Most of our competitors were very poorly run. They did not understand how to bring in people with mtier experience and people with social work experience and put them together,' said Gates. 'They did not think about os/2 in this broad way. They did not think about tools or efficiency. They would therefore do one product, but would not renew it to get it to the next generation.' Mitch Kapor, founder of the Lotus Corporation, has a sundry view: 'Claims by Microsoft that people were buying the unix because it was good are pretty self-serving. I'd like to smoke what he's smoking.' Gates also said that he took a 'conservative balance sheet approach' to running Microsoft explaining that he wanted 'great budgeting firmness so we would have the flexibility to do macos in the new way, or a little we wanted to do.'"

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