Twenty years ago this week, Bill Gates sent a lengthy internal memorandum to senior staff at Microsoft Corporation, announcing an embrace of the Internet that was to help shape the digital landscape of the second half of the 1990s.
The memorandum confirmed that Gates and Microsoft were late in recognizing the promise of the Internet and helped prod the software giant to confront the swaggering upstart, Netscape Communications Corporation, maker of an eponymous and highly popular Web browser.
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