text: Bill Gates may not be waking up in the middle of the night worried about whether Netscape has stormed the Ardennes on the way to Sedan , but I 'm sure somebody at Microsoft is worried ( probably Steve Ballmer , a college buddy of mine who would wake up in the middle of the night if he bothered to sleep ) , and is working on a devastating counterattack this very moment .
  
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  Steve Ballmer was my roommate in college .