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[Title:Challenges and Strategy]
[Author:Bill Gates]
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[Copyright:1991 - William Gates]
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Challenges and Strategy
Bill Gates
May 16, 1991



Prologue: The Reason for this Memo
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Every year I set aside at least one "think week" to get away and update
myself on the latest technical developments -- reading PhD theses, using
competitive products, reading books, newsletters and anything I can get
my hands on. Several valuable thoughts have come out of these retreats
(tables for Word, outlining in Excel, treating DOS as more of an asset),
however the complexity of the industry and its techology means that a lot
of my time is spent just trying to keep up rather than coming up with new
product ideas. It is no longer possible for any person, even our "architects",
to understand everything that is going on. Networking, processors, linguistics,
multimedia, development tools, and user interfaces are just a subset of the
technologies that will affect Microsoft. My role is to understand enough
to set direction. I enjoy these weeks a great deal -- not because I get
away from the issues of running Microsoft but rather because I get to think
more clearly about how to best lead the company away from problems and
toward opportunities. A lot of people choose things for me to read. By
the end of the week I make an effort to synthesize the best ideas and make
our technical strategy clear.

This year I decided to write a memo about overall strategy to the executive
staff. As we have grown and faced new challenges my opportunities to speak
to each of you directly has been greatly reduced. Even the aspects of our
strategy that remain unchanged are worth reinforcing.

In the same way that DEC's strategy for the 80's was VAX -- one architecture,
one operating system -- our strategy for the 90's is Windows -- one

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