3 ms·
Worth a complete read - amazingly accurate assessment of what actually came to be. Also insight into MSFTS current problems - Gates' genius mind was able to co
by aresant 15y ago
Worth a complete read - amazingly accurate assessment of what actually came to be.
Also insight into MSFTS current problems - Gates' genius mind was able to coordinate across many different biz divisions from consumer to enterprise.
Not many other candidates in the world with that bandwidth or visionary insight.
- archangel_one 15y agoTo be fair, it can't have been long before that memo that he wrote The Road Ahead, which infamously made very little mention of the internet at its first release, necessitating a whole bunch of additions for subsequent printings. I don't find it as amazingly visionary as all that - for example, he barely mentions the importance of search which his company would later end up sinking huge amounts of money into.
- slackgentoo 15y ago> he barely mentions the importance of search To be fair, he mentioned 7 critical steps. Search engines are No. 5.
- archangel_one 15y agoHuh, my PDF viewer seems to be failing to display a couple of pages towards the end. That's annoying.