The Liberal Democrats are not Microsoft

On the 26th May 1995 Bill Gates issued a memo to Microsoft executives. This memo, which has become famous as the "Internet Tidal Wave" memo, set out how this hugely successful company had made a major mistake. This mistake was the failure to recognise how important the Internet was. The memo went on to identified Netscape, with their Netscape Navigator web browser, as a major competitor to Microsoft. With this memo Gates ordered Microsoft to make a fundamental change in its strategic direction. From then on Microsoft was to assign the Internet the "highest level of importance". As a result of this memo huge changes swept across the company. New teams were set up. New projects were launched. Million dollar budgets were realigned. New people were hired and existing jobs redefined. Within months new online services were launched... [read full story]