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The Bill Gates memo. (memo from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates) (transcript)

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The Bill Gates 'memo' first surfaced as a lead article by Lee Gomes in the San Jose Mercury News ('Microsoft's Gates Eyes Challenges,' Tuesday June 18, 1991. After the story ran, the complete memo was faxed to anyone requesting it by Microsoft's public relations firm, Waggener Edstrom. (All copies bore Waggener's date stamp along the bottom edge.) It subsequently became page-one news in nearly every computer industry journal and the subject of much editorializing.

In this one meandering piece, Gates manages to insult IBM's OS/2 programming expertise, pre-announce Microsoft's NT product, and expose Borland's (until-now) secret plan to add word processing to ...

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