But the software giant also said that its growth could slow in the 1998 fiscal year.
But now no one seems ready to oppose the software giant on its control of the term "windows."
"When the company started, we had no goal to become a software giant," he said.
More than 100 students have summer jobs at the software giant, which pays between $7 and $10 an hour.
But this is the year that both the hardware and software giants think it will all happen.
The agreement settled only a part of the Government's antitrust case against the software giant.
In other words, it wasn't the software giant's decision at all.
As such, the software giant is looking to complement what's already out there and offer a few things that no one yet has.
Both companies are headed in the same direction, though from different starting points, one a software giant, the other an online service.
After the market closed, the software giant reported earnings for its third quarter that were better than expected.