It's difficult to believe now, but when Bob Tuttle took over the helm of Microsoft's Ottawa operations a decade ago, the company's influence around town was tiny.
Tuttle started out with five employees. Today he has 45. Most computer applications in the early 1990s ran on a clunky computer operating system known as DOS. Microsoft's graphics-friendly Windows technology was only just gathering momentum. Nor were Microsoft's applications, such as word processing and spreadsheets, the dominant force they are today. The company was in a real battle with WordPerfect, Borland and Lotus.
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