Microsoft memo offers a glimpse of Gates 2.0
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Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates issued a Sep 1998 company memo that asserts the company's current strength and outlines opportunities through 2003. 'The Era Ahead' argues that Microsoft currently enjoys a record high in the computer industry. Much of the 14-page memo suggests, however, the future will resemble the present. Gates envisions Microsoft basing its business and technology on the PC, for both large mainframe systems and less sophisticated hand-held consumer-electronics products. Microsoft also can continue to unify its products through the Internet. The memo specifically names IBM, Netscape, Oracle and Sun Microsystems as potential threats. Gates apparently plans to focus on Microsoft's business enterprise while the company prepares for its antitrust showdown with the Federal Government. The memo also suggests that the 42-year-old Gates is making a transition from operational management to become Microsoft's chief technologist.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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Microsoft shifts Web unit to Windows group
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Microsoft shifted its Internet Explorer World Wide Web group into the company's Personal and Business Systems Group, which develops and markets the Microsoft Windows OS. The reorganization follows a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit that accused the software giant of leveraging its OS market dominance to build a browser market monopoly. Analysts praised the move from a business perspective, regardless of antitrust arguments. The new Microsoft structure calls for the Personal and Business Systems Group, Consumer Platforms Group and new Applications and Tools Group to report to Paul A. Maritz, Microsoft group VP for platforms and applications. Maritz does not oversee the Interactive Media Group, which consists of a separate division.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
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