money.cnn.com — Fortune magazine has ranked Steve Jobs as the most powerful person in business in its annual ranking of the 25 most powerful people in business. Of course, these types of rankings are very subjective. To support their ranking, Fortune points to Jobs' deep influence on not only the computer industry, but Hollywood, music, retailing, and wireless p
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casualreaderNov 29, 2007
Steve Jobs is perhaps the most influential businessman today. He has been driving the computer and music industries for the past several years. Most business leaders are all about avoiding failure and risk. Jobs is not afraid to take risks (he has had several major failures such as the Cube and the hockey puck mouse), but he doesn't often fail and when he succeeds, it is in a spectacular way. Also, he prefers to innovate rather than copy.
mrbitchDec 2, 2007
canyon code theft of QuickTime media player assisted Microsoft in closing the gap between Windows slow and inefficient media player - 150 million was a cheap deal and got MS off the hook for code theft.
fugaziedDec 4, 2007
Somone at work today spent 4 hrs and numerous phone calls trying to get 6 machines running activated Office 2003. Then they worried about anti-virus software for the windows PCs and the drama/cost of that. Meanwhile I am happily working away on the macbook pro, no viruses, running the great (and free) neo-office and a bunch of other great free apps. Why use windows again?
scroggerDec 21, 2007
In response to Mike89's last comment - there's no reply link where it should be.Well you said it ... hiding out here with your head so far up your ass that you didn't see any of the massive tv coverage - it was hyped to the max everywhere. Don't you love it when you call someone else a 'f**king' idiot (no less), and you in fact are the complete moron.