“Amazingly it is easier to find information on the Web than it is to find information on the Microsoft Corporate Network.”
Bill Gates
The Internet Tidal Wave (Primary source)
The Internet Tidal Wave memo, sent to Microsoft’s executive staff and direct reports on May 26, 1995, is one of the most consequential internal documents in the company’s history—less a visionary essay than a detailed competitive war plan written under a sense of strategic urgency.
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“Amazingly it is easier to find information on the Web than it is to find information on the Microsoft Corporate Network. This inversion where a public network solves a problem better than a private network is quite stunning.”
Bill Gates
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