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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 20, 1992
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Spain completes changes for'92 Expo in Seville
The Associated Press
SEVILLE, Spain — Laborers and officials worked into the night yesterday, putting the final touches on Expo 92, a mammoth world exposition that marks Spain's formal entrance into the high-tech, democratic world.
Expo 92 Commissioner Emilio Cassinello said, "It is a magnificent occasion for us to present ourselves to the world as a European country capable of efficiently organizing major events."
But the government still must contend with threats of attacks by Basque separatists during the six-month exposition
Cassinello said that everything humanly possible had been done to avoid a terrorist attack.
The Basque separatist group ETA, which is waging an armed campaign to gain independence for the three province Spanish Basque region, has
targeted Expo '92 and the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The government has deployed 10,000 security personnel to guard the exposition.
Atnnoom tomorrow, King Juan Carlos is scheduled to open the festivities by cutting the ribbon in front of the 15hccentury Santa Maria de las Cuevas monastery, the heart of the 531-acre Expo site on Cartuja Island in the Guadalquiver River across from downtown Seville.
From now until the exposition closes on Oct. 12, Spaniards hope that the world will see how far they have come on the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the New World. They are especially proud in democracy following the death of Gen. Francisco Franco in 1975.
The victor in Spain's bloody 1936-39 civil war ruled the country with an iron hand for 36 years.
King Juan Carlos first proposed that
Spain host a world exposition in March 1976, less than a year after he succeeded France as head of state.
Yesterday, Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia marked the 500th anniversary of the signing of the contract among Columbus, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that confirmed Spain's position as the driving force behind the age of discovery.
Expo '92 features pavilions or exhibit spaces representing 110 nations, 23 international organizations, Spain's 17 autonomous regions and 30 businesses. It also has four theme pavilions dealing with history, communications and the future, and acres of parks and gardens.
Spain has invested $10 billion in Seville and in the surrounding region of Andalusia to improve roads, airports and bridges. And tomorrow it will inaugurate the country's first high-speed rail link between Madrid and Seville.
The incredible growing giant
Despite duels with competitors, Microsoft is the king of PCs
The Associated Press
REDMOND, Wash. — Like a mushroom colony nurtured by the Northwest's moist weather, Microsoft Corp. just keeps growing and growing and growing.
Sales and profits soared six-fold over the past five years. Its payroll, now toping 10,000, has been rising by 60 people a week. Buildings have sprung up so fast at its headquarters outside Seattle that even veteran employees get lost.
And Microsoft's domination of the personal computer software industry is so great that its products are found on all of the world's personal computers.
Microsoft could face the same fate.
"It is the Standard Oil of our era," said Richard Shaffer, editor of the industry publication ComputerLetter.
But like that oil giant of the early part of the century, Microsoft's path may not be entirely naved with gold.
First, the Federal Trade Commission is examining whether the company monopolizes the software industry. A government investigation led to Standard Oil's breakup in 1911, and
Microsoft also is batting a costly copyright infringement suit by Apple Computer Inc., though Apple was dealt a significant back in the case last
Finally, erstwhile collaborator International Business Machines Corp is dueling with Microsoft over the development of personal computer software.
IBM is promoting a competitor to Windows, Microsoft's wildly successful product that makes IBM-type personal computers easier to use. And IBM's historic alliance with Apple last year was seen by many as an attack by Microsoft over its best-performing computer makers on Microsoft dominated of PC software.
But Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder, chairman and 36-year-old boy wonder, doesn't appear the least bit nervous.
In a recent interview, Gates expressed confidence that Microsoft would prevail in the Apple lawsuit and convince the government it is not monopolistic.
As Microsoft grows, some wonder whether Gates can keepup his management style, which involves him deeply in many areas of the company's operations. He's known to stay up well past midnight firing off electronic mail memos to employees ranging from top executives to low-level programmers.
Gates says the key to managing Microsoft's growth is to break the staff into small groups.
"That's the level where the culture exists," he said. "They have Friday afternoon get-together, they have awards for who did a good job."
Though Microsoft is already a runaway success, Gates and his chief executives have ever bolder plans.
Under a scheme called "Information at your Fingertips," Gates envisions using Microsoft software to open up a vast array of data. People would use hand-held electronic devices or wall-sized video screens to read computerized books, view videos or see electronic reproductions of artworks, tapping knowledge no matter where it's based.
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