If you’re into tech business history, ’s ongoing Substack about his experiences at early-ish Microsoft is brilliant. Totally worth subscribing to — e.g. in this edition Gates had just set the strategy of the company to go all in on Windows. rdcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/011-a-strate
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The cool thing about reading history is being able to put yourself in the actors’s shoes: as I’m reading this, I’m imagining myself in Sinofsky’s shoes, debating the extent object oriented programming is or isn’t a fad, and whether to embrace C++.
What a time that must’ve been!
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The actual Bill Gates memo may be found here: tech-insider.org/windows/resear
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