Example sentences for: stross

How can you use “stross” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In fact, the flawed Ford-Gates analogy is a perfect metaphor for what's wrong with Stross' book.

  • Had Stross written his book next year, he would have had a whole new story line: how Microsoft was or was not able to translate its dominance in personal computers to the Internet.

  • Microsoft doesn't seem like the kind of place that would fight new wars with old-war strategies, but it is insightful to see just how little of the Microsoft that Stross saw was focused on the Net, and how much was focused on old-fashioned software-delivery systems.

  • To his credit, Stross does grasp what's right at Microsoft: the hard-boiled meritocracy that makes rich those who contribute to it; Bill Gates' prediction that consumers, not just large businesses, would jump at the chance to own computers; and his--and his company's--driving desire to outsmart and outfox the competition.

  • Had the writer drawn the obvious parallels, he would have run the risk of endorsing the Justice Department's case against the monopolist Microsoft, a case Stross spends almost the entire book debunking.


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