Article: The Gates memo. (confidential memo from Microsoft Chmn Bill Gates leaked)

Last week, the San Jose Mercury News published a confidential memo that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent to about 20 of his top managers. What's Softeletter's reaction to the memo's contents? Gates starts by talking about how he spent a think week" devoted to reading PhD theses, using competitive products, reading books, newsletters and anything I can get my hands on." The purpose of this retreat from daily business, he says, was to "make our technical strategy clear." Yet Gates doesn't seem to have come back with any fresh ideas about technology strategy or even products. Instead, much of his memo deals with business and legal confrontations--the Apple lawsuit and the ...

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