The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995)

Re:The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995) by aresant on Thursday August 18, 2011 @01:22PM (#2900102)

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.

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Re:The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995) by archangel_one on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:25PM (#2901400)

To 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.

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Re:The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995) by slackgentoo on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:33PM (#2901427)

> he barely mentions the importance of search

To be fair, he mentioned 7 critical steps. Search engines are No. 5.

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Re:The Internet Tidal Wave (Gates, 1995) by archangel_one on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:40PM (#2901448)

Huh, my PDF viewer seems to be failing to display a couple of pages towards the end. That's annoying.

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