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  Ex-employee: 'Hey Microsoft, your days are numbered'
Time: 14:00 EST/19:00 GMT | News Source: Seattle PI | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Proprietary software made Bill Gates and Microsoft rich beyond imagination. But a new age is coming in computing. And Microsoft's focus on proprietary products will ultimately doom the company.

That's what Keith Curtis, a former Microsoft employee who worked there for 11 years, says in his book "After the Software Wars." He argues that as free, user-developed software becomes more and more ubiquitous, Microsoft will dwindle into history.

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