Gates touts ties with Japanese companies
C|Net | at | by Mike
For Bill Gates, the key to business success lies in knowing your strengths and, outside those areas, in building alliances such as those Microsoft is cultivating in Japan.
"The richness of what we have been able to do together with leading Japanese companies really is quite phenomenal," Gates told a news conference here. The Microsoft chairman was in Tokyo to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the company's Japanese subsidiary.
He also used the opportunity to get in a dig at IBM, which Microsoft has identified as a key rival. "IBM once stumbled because the company stretched too far, trying to cover everything from hardware to software," he said.