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Article: Chicago Tribune Binary Beat Column.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- July 28, 2002
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Byline: James Coates
Jul. 28--MICROSOFT TAKING AIM AT HOME ENTERTAINMENT: Bill Gates has his eye on your television set. He thinks your TV should stop being just a video machine and become a computer. Care to guess which operating system Bill wants your television set to use?
Look at it this way. There are a bit more than 100 million households in the United States. About 48 million of these homes have a computer. By contrast, virtually the entire 100 million households have one color television set and more than half of them have at least two TVs.
With computer sales to American homes now flatter than they ever have been, Gates set his sights ...