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Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 14:34 David Rosenthal In January, 1994, when a young Windows networking engineer named James Allard, or J as he goes by, writes a memo to Bill Gates and to the senior leadership
- ▶ 15:19 David Rosenthal And in this memo, Jay argues that the internet and this software instantiation of it in the Mosaic web browser
- ▶ 16:33 David Rosenthal Honestly, it's pretty incredible that Jay lays out the whole winning strategy for Microsoft and the internet here in January, 1994.
- ▶ 18:52 David Rosenthal So Stephen and Bill organize an internet offsite, quote unquote, with all the top execs, with Jay, Bill, Stephen, everybody who's investigating this internet thing.
- ▶ 19:13 David Rosenthal And at this offsite, Bill totally gets religion that the internet, as Jay said in his initial memo, is actually an exponential phenomenon.
- ▶ 59:34 David Rosenthal And, you know, look, if you ask Bill and Microsoft and Jay Allard all the way back to the original memo, it was absolutely intended to be a core feature of the Windows operating system, having an internet browser as part of it.
- ▶ 2:44:40 David Rosenthal You needed the equivalent of the Jay Allard Windows