Internet Resources

• Chronology: The First 25 Years
• Microsoft Home Page, Redmond (Wash.)
• United States of America v. Microsoft Corporation, [C.A. 98-1232 | State of New York, ex rel. Eliot Spitzer, et al., v. Microsoft Corporation, C.A. 98-1233: Conclusions of Law and Order April 3, 2000]

  The United States, nineteen individual states, and the District of Columbia ("the plaintiffs") bring these consolidated civil enforcement actions against defendant Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") under the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C. '' 1 and 2. The plaintiffs charge, in essence, that Microsoft has waged an unlawful campaign in defense of its monopoly position in the market for operating systems designed to run on Intel-compatible personal computers ("PCs").

• Seattle Times' "Microsoft Trial Page"
• Microsoft Research (incl. MS Cambridge)
• MS Education Home Page
  • MS Partners in Education [restricted access]
  • The Gates Library Foundation is dedicated to partnering with public libraries to bring access to computers, the Internet, and digital information for patrons in low-income communities in the United States and Canada.
• Microsoft (Edgar/Stern)
• Microsoft Campus Pictures
• Microsoft Elsewhere
  • Europe || or here
  • Germany
  • UK
  • India
• Microsoft Network
• "Slate" (Microsoft/Michael Kinsley)
• Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock
• City of Redmond (Wash.)

Microsoft & Geography:

• Tom Edwards (AAG Interview)

Clippings:

• Company sparks region's growth ; Seattle Times, Business & Technology: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 Microsoft employees made an average base salary of $89,600 in 2001. Including stock options and other benefits, they averaged $255,000, nearly seven times the state average.
  From 1990 to 2001, Microsoft was responsible for more than a fourth of King County's employment growth. [Dick Conway]
• Timeline [Seattle Times, Feb.23, 2003]
• Microsoft at midlife: Bill Gates' view of the future Seattle Times, Feb 23, 2003; By Brier Dudley
• Still on top of the industry," [market shares] ST Feb 23, 2003
• Monday, February 24, 2003 Microsoft CEO wants company to broaden its reach, burnish its reputation [CEO Steve Balmer] ST Feb 24, 2003 By Brier Dudley

• German city favors Linux over Microsoft SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Thursday, November 28, 2002 Linux software will replace programs made by Microsoft Corp. at government offices in Schwaebisch Hall as that German city seeks to save more than $99,255 a year.

• A clear victory for Microsoft: Judge approves antitrust settlement Seattle PI, Saturday, November 2, 2002 By DAN RICHMAN AND CHARLES POPE It was a clear victory for the Redmond company in its 4-year-old antitrust suit. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly approved the deal reached by Microsoft, the Justice Department and nine states, and delivered a stinging rejection to nine other states that had sought harsher penalties against the world's largest software maker.
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• Microsoft seeks OK for Issaquah campus; Seattle Times, January 13, 2002; By Chris Solomon Eastside bureau The software behemoth plans 15 office buildings and 14 parking garages, with nearly 3 million square feet of office space -- about equivalent to two of Seattle's 76-story Bank of America Towers. Microsoft envisions 12,500 to 15,000 employees working there, according to its application for a planning-level permit... [paper version also includes map]

• Microsoft's unusual gift gives boost to CS&E building campaign University of Washington Week, 18(3), Aug 16, 2001; By Rob Harrill Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced last week that the company has given $7.2 million toward a new building to house the UW's nationally ranked Department of Computer Science & Engineering.
• Alliance just the first of many? Others may follow e-Bay to Microsoft Seattle Times, March 13, 2001; By Brier Dudley Seattle Times technology reporter Yesterday's announcement that Microsoft and online auctioneer eBay will share technology and link their Web pages may be the first of several high-profile alliances for Microsoft this year as the company shifts its Internet strategy into high gear.
• Cooling economy slows Microsoft Seattle Times, Saturday, March 10, 2001 By Brier Dudley Microsoft, which bolstered the state's economy in previous slowdowns, will scale back hiring over the next 18 months... As part of a broad effort to cut costs, the company will limit its job growth to 5 percent or less from the current level... "Given the economic climate and Microsoft's generally conservative approach, we will probably have a lower rate of increase percentage-wise in the next 18 months than we have in years past...'' That means the Redmond company would at most hire 2,100 people over the next 18 months. By comparison, its work force has grown by 2,830, or 7 percent, since its fiscal year began in July and grew by 7,595, or 24 percent, the previous year. At the end of February, it had 42,000 employees worldwide, including 22,000 in the Puget Sound region.
• Microsoft vacating space in Bellevue, Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Dec. 1, 2000

  Microsoft will vacate a large collection of leased office space in Bellevue, but observers say conditions are so rare that they view the impending vacancies as healthy for the market.

• Microsoft, employees throw support to Gorton Seattle Times, November 05, 2000; By John Hendren Seattle Times, Washington bureau
• Door always open for ex-Microsofties Seattle Times, October 21, 2000; By Kristi Heim Knight Ridder Newspapers

  Only a year ago, Microsoft was bemoaning the flood of employees to Internet start-ups. Now that the dot-com bubble has burst, the company is getting its revenge by hiring some of those same employees back.

• Stock options that made Microsofties rich are now their undoing Unwise decisions and dropping share price are leaving some in debt Seattle PI, Friday, October 20, 2000 By DAN RICHMAN

  The same Microsoft stock options that made thousands of employees rich are now driving some of them into debt... Larry Feinstein, a bankruptcy lawyer in Seattle, said he has six Microsoft employees going through Chapter 13... The six all incurred their debt through option-related financial missteps, he said.

• Start-up secures $7.5 million funding; might be competitor to Microsoft Seattle Times, October 17, 2000; By Paul Andrews

  The Seattle start-up yesterday announced first-round funding of $7.5 million, led by Ignition, a Bellevue Internet "incubator" and start-up in its own right. The connection goes back to Microsoft. Avogadro Chief Executive Thomas Reardon worked closely mapping Windows and Internet strategies with Ignition co-founder Brad Silverberg, the major-domo of Microsoft's Windows 95 and Internet Explorer.

• Issaquah:
  • Last train to Ellensburg: a cross-mountain preview Seattle Times, October 16, 2000; by James Vesely,

    You visit Ellensburg today and you are visiting Stockton 10 years ago. That's why the first reports of cross-pass commuters from Kittitas County to the gold fields of Redmond, North Bend, Issaquah and Seattle are greeted with intense interest.

  • Microsoft plans huge new office complex Seattle PI, Wednesday, October 4, 2000, By LEWIS KAMB

    ISSAQUAH -- Microsoft Corp. executives unveiled plans last night for an expansive new office complex they intend to build here -- a set of buildings across 800,000 square feet that may mark the beginning of a new corporate campus that could one day rival the company's Redmond headquarters.

  • Microsoft expected to unveil plans for new Issaquah campus Seattle Times, September 22, 2000, By Luke Timmerman

    In discussions with city staff, the software giant has outlined ideas for a 150-acre site in the Issaquah Highlands to house 12,000 employees. The complex would have numerous four- and five-story buildings, built in phases, totaling about 3 million square feet.

  • Microsoft close to unveiling its plans How will software company fit in? The Issaquah Press, Sept.20, 2000, by Stacy Goodman

    As is typical for Microsoft, the company has not released drawings or any other information about the project, for fear it would be published, ... City staff has had to repeatedly drive to Microsoft's architect in Seattle to look at the plans.

    "It's been a challenge to get them to understand the difference between the vision for Issaquah Highlands versus what exists on the Redmond campus,"... The biggest difference is that Microsoft's Redmond campus isn't part of that city.

    "This is going to be right next to the town center for Issaquah Highlands,"...

• Microsoft adjusting its course after a triumphant quarter-century Seattle Times, September 3, 2000, by Paul Andrews Seattle Times technology reporter

  When Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded their software company 25 years ago - an event Microsoft will commemorate at a rousing company meeting Tuesday at Safeco Field - they faced a titanic challenge.

• A few good plugs for Microsoft? Start 'em up! Seattle Times, June 16, 2000; by Kay McFadden / Times Staff Columnist

  We want to help Microsoft. And we need you. No, really. It's not like our region's prime economic engine can't use the assistance. Microsoft may seem impervious to slings from the feds and jeers from the mob and complaints from customers, but you have only to watch its TV commercials to know the company is in a bad way.

• Microsoft wooed by another foreign suitor: Despite B.C. offer, company plans to stay in U.S., SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Saturday, June 3, 2000; By DAN RICHMAN

  Where does Microsoft want to go today? Nowhere, it says. It will stay in the United States and face whatever antitrust remedy the American legal system dishes out. But the Redmond software company, dogged by the Justice Department for more than 10 years and now threatened with corporate dismemberment, does have other choices.

• Geopolitics of Microsoft [Stratfor Analysis, May 1, 2000]

  ...the breakup of Microsoft could be a setback for the United States abroad. An unintended consequence of the company's success has been the way it has magnified American power overseas, from the cultural sphere to the dominance of information....

• Enormous wealth, pent-up demand on Eastside Seattle Times, March 8, 2000; by Elizabeth Rhodes

  "What we're finding with the Microsoft buyer," says Fortier, "is if they can afford to buy (a starter home) initially, and a lot of them cannot, they buy a $250,000 house." But when they trade in that first house, it's not for a $350,000 house as the previous move-up group might have done. The Microsoft buyer exercises stock options. "They go to a $900,000 house..."

• The rumor's here ... but that's all The Sun, March 5, 2000, By Christopher Dunagan, Sun Staff

  The Microsoft story is going strong, but the software giant is nowhere to be seen. "Microsoft." The name has been whispered on ferries and in public meetings. "Microsoft. Coming to Kitsap County."

• Microsoft executive Pete Higgins won't return Seattle Times, December 21, 1999, by Jay Greene

  Pete Higgins, a high-ranking Microsoft executive on leave for the past year, won't return to the software giant. Instead, Higgins will team with three other high-powered Seattle technology executives to launch a company next year that will provide management and strategy consulting to the area's tech start-ups.

• Microsoft Temps Organize Into Bargaining Unit Labor: Group hoping for improved benefits signs a petition seeking representation by local union. Seattle Times (?), June 4, 1999. By LESLIE HELM, Times Staff Writer

  SEATTLE--In a groundbreaking move that could help shape labor relations in the rapidly growing high-tech sector, a group of 16 temporary employees at Microsoft have organized as a bargaining unit and signed a petition asking a local union to represent them.

• Special Seattle Times Page on Microsoft Trial

• Remaking Microsoft (Microsoft 2.0) Business Week Cover May 17, 1999.

  Revenues and profits are rising at a 30% clip. Income per employee is an enviable $257,000, vs. an average $17,000 for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index. And the company has gone on a spending spree, investing in or gobbling up 92 companies in the past five years. Still, it has $22 billion in cash--more than any corporation in the U.S.

• Big-house building boom: County's trend reflects mega-wealth of '90s; Seattle Times, May 10, 1999; by Peyton Whitely

  "Once they were mansions. Now they're mega-houses... the Seattle area is going through its biggest mega-house splurge ever, reflecting wealth accumulation that hasn't been seen since the turn of the last century. ... The largest by far is Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' 48,160-square-foot Medina home, with 20 rooms and 18 full baths. The others include a 28,000-square-foot house in Shoreline and two more in Medina - one at nearly 24,000 square feet and Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi's house at 22,000 square feet...."

• Bicycle commuters welcome new path in Redmond high-tech area Seattle Times, March 18, 1999 by Brier Dudley, Seattle Times Eastside bureau REDMOND - The state's costliest bike path is now under construction in the high-tech office zone around Microsoft. The $4.85 million trail alongside Highway 520 cuts a 4-mile swath through the booming Overlake area, where more than 20,000 workers have been isolated from regional trails that might offer a brisk alternative to numbing highway traffic.
• Microsoft trial: Company, government eyeing deal?; Seattle Times, March 8, 1999; by James V. Grimaldi "WASHINGTON - In the wake of today's unexpected antitrust settlement between Intel and the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft and the government are exploring ways to settle the landmark antitrust lawsuit before it resumes next month after a six-week recess, according to people close to the case."
• Microsoft trial: MIT economist attacks colleague's earlier testimony Seattle Times, January 21, 1999; by Jay Greene Microsoft's economic expert ... arguing today that Microsoft doesn't act like a monopolist, so it can't be one. Richard Schmalensee, dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management, said MIT professor Franklin Fisher's testimony supporting claims that Microsoft holds a monopoly over computer operating systems is "implausible" and "nonsensical." "Plaintiff's economists' conclusions are wrong because they conflict with reality,"..
• Low-profile Microsoft executive in hot seat ; Seattle Times, January 17, 1999, by Jay Greene and James V. Grimaldi Among the hundreds of quotes the federal government has used to paint Microsoft as anti-competitive, none sums up the government's case as well as two sentences attributed to the chief of the company's operating-systems business, Paul Maritz. "We are going to cut off their air supply," Maritz said in 1995 about Microsoft's plans to drive Internet browser rival Netscape Communications from business. "Everything they're selling, we're going to give away for free."
• Gates' evasive testimony bemuses judge; Seattle Times Monday, November 16, 1998 by James V. Grimaldi "WASHINGTON - In an extraordinary series of exchanges between Bill Gates and the Justice Department's top prosecutor, the Microsoft chairman dodged questions about internal documents, meetings and e-mails discussing Microsoft's war with archrival Netscape Communications."
• Microsoft's visitors boost fortunes of area hotels; Seattle Times, Saturday, October 3, 1998; by Keith Ervin "Big businesses, especially the kinds that cut billion-dollar deals and recruit Ph.D.s from around the world, can really pump up the hotel business. While Boeing accounts for about 100,000 "room nights" in hotels from SeaTac to Everett, Microsoft is the Eastside's No. 1 hotel customer and the top user of meeting space at Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue."
• 'Knifing the baby': High-tech cooperation or collusion? Seattle Times, Sunday, September 20, 1998; by James V. Grimaldi, Seattle Times Washington bureau "Microsoft and Apple Computer, once fierce rivals, now business partners, have frequent and relatively routine meetings about the everyday business of designing their products to work together. But a series of meetings between the summer of 1997 and April of this year has drawn the attention of government investigators who see the talks as another example of Microsoft crossing the line from cooperation to attempted collusion."
• Working at home easy to compute Seattle Times, Monday, July 6, 1998; by Keith Ervin Ironically, one of the companies taxiing around the telecommuting runway is Microsoft. Employees of the Redmond corporation may receive permission from their supervisors to work regularly at home, but "very, very, very few people do it," says spokesman John Pinette. Because of the team-oriented nature of work at Microsoft, Pinette says, "the choice here active for more than two years, according to Tim Arnold, a commercial real estate agent with Bradley-Scott in Bremerton. "It's just a rumor everyone's knowledge," said A has been to have employees be on site." While Microsoft and many other companies remain wary about telecommuting, others are embracing it..."
• Eastside cities spar over Overlake road projects Seattle Times, Wednesday, June 10, 1998; by J. Martin McOmber Like a good meal, Redmond and Bellevue have savored the economic boom in Overlake. Now they are bickering over the bill: $121 million in road projects to handle the crush of cars heading to and from the home of Microsoft, Eddie Bauer, Safeco and other marquee companies.
• Microsoft's last-minute phone calls averted suit Seattle Times, Friday, May 15, 1998; by James V. Grimaldi and Thomas W. Haines "Once again, Microsoft is pushing it to the limit. Today, the software company's lawyers are meeting with government attorneys in high-stakes, last-minute negotiations to avoid an antitrust lawsuit with potentially far-reaching ramifications for Microsoft's future."
• Many in region ambivalent about Microsoft's troubles Seattle Times, May 15, 1998, by Eric Sorensen "REDMOND - This is supposed to be a company town. City Hall employees have Microsoft Windows paperweights, and the tavern talk can easily drift from lost love to the latest bug on Windows NT. But don't expect to find folks crying in their beer about the big bad Justice Department or those renegade attorneys general."
• States expected to file antitrust suits against Microsoft "WASHINGTON (May 8, 1998 9:20 p.m. EDT http://www.nando.net) -- About a dozen states are considering filing an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft separate from the Justice Department, state officials said Friday..."
• What To Do About Microsoft? Business Week, April 20, 1998 (cover). "America's high-tech industry is the economic success story of the 1990s. Accounting for some 30% of the increase in gross domestic product since 1994, the explosive growth of the country's software and computer companies has enabled the U.S. to regain its supremacy in the global marketplace. Not since the heyday of the railroads in the 1800s has prosperity been tied so closely to one sector of the economy. The engine inside this economic steamroller is Microsoft Corp., which provides the operating system for virtually all personal computers..."
• Are there weaknesses in Microsoft's armor? Second of two parts Seattle Times, Monday, April 20, 1998; by Michele Matassa Flores "Economists like to parody the way government lawyers view the world of business: If a company's prices are too high, it's a monopoly. If prices are stable, it's conspiring with competitors. And if prices are falling, it's unfairly undercutting the market. Guilty, guilty, guilty."
• WHAT TO DO ABOUT MICROSOFT: Leave it be? Regulate it? Break it up? Soon, the U.S. will have to make the call Business Week, April 20, 1998 (cover story)
• The crusade against Microsoft Seattle Times, Sunday, April 19, 1998, by Michele Matassa Flores [with additional, linked background sites!] The more Bill Gates insists Microsoft is not a monopoly, the more his critics snicker. Gates and his deputies, after spending their adult lives building an empire, are now consumed with convincing Congress, the Justice Department, state officials, the European Commission, the Japanese government and the American public that - aw, shucks - they're just another software company.
• Sharing of the green ; Seattle Times, Sunday, April 12, 1998; by Ferdinand M. de Leon "....Social Venture Partners (SVP), a 10-month-old foundation that's part giving circle and part philanthropy school for the cyber-rich - men and women, mostly in their 30s and 40s, who have made their fortunes at some of the region's leading high-tech corporations. The foundation, which offers a glimpse of how this new generation of millionaires will share its riches, sprouted from members't struggle with their new wealth. And while they accept the responsibilities that come with money, they want to do so on their own terms, forcing a re-examination of the time-honored ways the haves have given to the have-nots. They reject mere check-writing in favor of hands-on work, from mentoring to developing business plans..."
  • New rules require nonprofits to reach beyond traditional funding sources Seattle Times, Sunday, April 12, 1998; by Marc Ramirez
• Microsoft boom: Big numbers, big plans, big deal By Cynthia Flash The News Tribune When state officials recently released statistics saying computer software workers earned $135,000 a year, readers did a double take. How could those salaries be so high? The answer is simple. Microsoft. The state's fourth-largest employer is so successful that its employees in 1995 earned on average $135,000, when you include stock options cashed in that year.
• Microsoft Plans Software Development Centre in India: Centre to focus on Windows NT and BackOffice interoperability

  MUMBAI – March, 24 1998…. Microsoft Corporation today announced plans to establish a software development centre in Hyderabad, India. Subject to clearance by regulatory agencies, the facility will become operational during the second half of 1998 and will focus development work on the interoperability of Windows NT and BackOffice products with non-Microsoft platforms."

• Microsoft increases spending on lobbyists Seattle Times, Thursday, March 19, 1998; by Martin Wolk, Reuters "Microsoft dramatically increased efforts to influence the federal government in the past year as it became enmeshed in a fierce legal battle with antitrust regulators, newly disclosed reports to the government show."
• Traffic about to bust as Overlake booms Seattle Times, Monday, March 2, 1998 by J. Martin McOmber There was a time, not long ago, when Redmond's dream for Overlake was a regional shopping mall that would rival Bellevue Square. What it got instead - much to the city's surprise - was more office space and jobs than all of downtown Bellevue.

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• x Microsoft, Justice disagree on meaning of settlement Seattle Times, January 23, 1998 by Danny Westneat and Michele Matassa Flores ... between Microsoft and the federal government - how diametrically opposite the two sides are interpreting what the pact means, and, more importantly, what they say it portends for the future.
• Microsoft contends fact-finder is biased Seattle Times, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1998 by Michele Matassa Flores

  "Microsoft lawyers have asked the Harvard professor who was named a "special master" in the company's federal antitrust case to remove himself, citing e-mail notes in which the court-appointed expert traded Microsoft barbs with a Netscape attorney last summer.
  In a six-page letter to Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, Microsoft lawyer Richard Urowsky accuses Lessig of being a "Netscape partisan" with an anti-Microsoft bias, ...
  Lessig was appointed Dec. 11 ... to conduct fact-finding hearings on the latest antitrust claims the federal government has made against Microsoft. The Justice Department says Microsoft has violated an earlier court order..".

• Microsoft pays high price for underestimating D.C. ; Seattle Times, Friday, Dec. 19, 1997; by James K. Glassman Special to The Washington Post (MS)....failed to understand that the fate of American companies often hinges on the power of American politicians, bureaucrats and judges... it's not enough to make good software, to market it... You have to play Washington's game. Microsoft hasn't done that, and the company and its shareholders - not to mention its customers - may pay.. for this.. naive inattention and arrogance.
  Bill Gates ... has always believed that the role government should play in helping high-tech companies is to leave them alone. He's right, but unfortunately that's not the way Washington works.
• Vatican joins Microsoft as a software company Seattle Times, Friday, Nov. 28, 1997
• Lawyer handed central role in Microsoft case; Seattle Times, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1997; by David Segal, Washington Post WASHINGTON - Among politicos and policy-makers, he is virtually unknown. But suddenly, Lawrence Lessig, a 36-year-old Harvard professor and self-described workaholic, has been handed a key role in determining the outcome of a lawsuit that could profoundly shape the rules of cyberspace.

• Redmond can't cope, report says Eastside Journal, Nov.20, 1997, By Doug Margeson "Runaway sprawl, deteriorating city services and manpower shortages are some of the fears voiced by City Council members after listening to a report on growth's impact on the city.
  Development that was supposed to take place over an 18-year span has occurred in four years, city government has been overwhelmed by it and construction of roads and other public utilities necessary to serve it are lagging far behind..."
• Tons of money, but is the gift one that lasts? ; Seattle Times, Sunday, Sept. 28, 1997 by Constance Casey, Newhouse News Service

  In June, Gates and his wife Melinda pledged to spend $200 million of their personal fortune, plus $200 million from Microsoft, to help thousands of public libraries in the United States and Canada provide access to the Internet.

• MSNBC to lay off 20% of Internet staff Seattle Times, Monday, Sept. 22, 1997 by Michele Matassa Flores Employees of MSNBC's Internet operation are finding out today that nearly 20 percent of the staff will be laid off as Microsoft presses to cut costs at many of its Web-publishing businesses.

• Microsoft won't bankroll RTA park-and-ride lot Seattle Times, Friday, Sept. 12, 1997

  Microsoft has decided not to advance $5 million to help pay for a proposed transit center and park-and-ride lot near Highway 520 and 156th Avenue Northeast in Redmond.

• Home sweet home for the Gateses Seattle Times, Thursday, Sept. 11, 1997, by J. Martin McOmber MEDINA - It's moving day for Bill and Melinda Gates. Although some detail work remains before the $60 million waterfront estate is finished, the couple's long-expected relocation to their new home is under way.

• Microsoft will künftig in "Windows" Sprachunterstützung einbauen Germany Live, Donnerstag, 11. September 1997 Der amerikanische Softwaregigant Microsoft will die Produktion eines Computers vorantreiben, der sprechen und auch Sprache verstehen kann. Zur Entwicklung der notwendigen Software beteiligte sich Microsoft an dem belgischen Spezialunternehmen Lernout & Hauspies Speech Products (Ieper)....
  Die Microsoft Corporation (Redmond/US-Staat Washington) unternimmt damit einen neuen Versuch zur Entwicklung interaktiver Softwareassistente, die vor allem Anfängern den Einstieg in die Bedienung eines Computers erleichtern soll.

• Builders scramble to meet Eastside office demand, Seattle Times, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1997 "Microsoft, making room for 5,000 to 6,000 more employees at its main campus, is still doing plenty of building. The software giant is putting up 1 million square feet of offices - the equivalent of another Columbia Seafirst Tower. The real story, though, is the amount of building for other companies. Projects in the development pipeline in Redmond alone add up to about the same size as the 38 Microsoft buildings that cover 300 acres on two campuses...."

• Court says Microsoft temps should get benefits Seattle Times, Friday, July 25, 1997. Hundreds of people hired as temporary workers at Microsoft may be eligible to cash in on the company's lucrative benefit plan, a federal appeals court has ruled, a move that could cost the company millions and have significant implications for employers around the country who hire temporary workers.

• Microsoft ponders overseas extension Seattle Times, Thursday, July 17, 1997 by Thomas W. Haines "Where does the company want to go tomorrow? Microsoft would rather grow close to home than unravel its tightly woven Redmond nest, said Bob Herbold, Microsoft chief operating officer. But limited space and a shallow labor pool may force the company to start placing more operations outside the Puget Sound area, most likely overseas. Microsoft is considering adding some software development teams in Dublin, Ireland, where Microsoft already operates a manufacturing and distribution site, or India, among other places."

• Seattle Times, July 13, 14:
  • Life in Microsoft's circle of prosperity
  • Many have left the mother ship to fly on their own
  • Money to burn on cars, planes
  • Microsoft fuels hot housing market
  • Money moves west
  • Microsoft: a growing tradition of giving
  • Gates again tops Forbes' wealth list

• Succeed like Microsoft by failing like Microsoft, Seattle Times, June 5, 1997. [Hardly anyone notices Microsoft funerals because of the volume of birth announcements.]
• The confusing interactive worlds of Paul Allen by Michele Matassa Flores, Seattle Times, Sunday, May 4, 1997.
• When Bill Gates calls, top execs rarely say no by Paul Andrews and Thomas W. Haines Seattle Times, Sunday, May 4, 1997.
• "The Theory that Explains Microsoft" [Seattle Times, April 20, 1997]
• What are Microsoft, rivals fighting over? It's not the obvious by Michele Matassa Flores; "Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates often says his company's greatest asset is all the smart people it has hired. But if you look around at one of his company's slickly promoted developer conferences, you might conclude that its greatest asset is all the smart people it hasn't hired."
• Search Results, Seattle Times, March 13, 1997
• Internet Wars: Business battle of the '90s [Seattle Times, March 11, 1997] By Paul Andrews and Michele Matasa Flores
• Internet wars: Money's no object at Microsoft by Michele Matasa Flores and Paul Andrews [Seattle Times, Monday, March 10, 1997]
• Inside the heart of the money machine by Michele Matassa Flores [Seattle Times, Monday, March 10, 1997]
• Internet wars: Can Microsoft rule the web? [Seattle Times, Sunday, March 9, 1997] by Paul Andrews and Michele Matassa Flores Seattle Times staff reporters. "It's starting to happen. People are starting to buy, sell, barter and trade on the Internet."
• Microsoft's role key to Apple's success with NeXT By Paul Andrews, Seattle Times, December 24, 1996
• Dick Conway's Study of Microsoft Local Impact Multipliers (ST Dec.5, 1996)
• Same Report, in: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce (Dec.5, 1996)
• Son Gives UW $10 Million in Honor of Mary Gates; Old Physics Building Renamed Mary Gates Hall Columns Magazine September 1995.
• Inside Microsoft (Part 1) -- The untold story of how the Internet forced Bill Gates to reverse course. Business Week, July 15, 1996 (Cover)
• "THE SOFTWARE REVOLUTION", Business Week 12/04/95 -- Cover Story.
• Windows '95, Business Week 7/10/95 -- Cover Story

Banana Republicans: Differences in Wealth Try the Imagination by Timothy Harris

Literature:

Arrow, K.J., U.S. v. Microsoft, Declaration of Economist, Kenneth J. Arrow

Boyd, Aaron, Smart money : the story of Bill Gates. Greensboro : Morgan Reynolds, 1995. 110 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. [Businessmen -- United-States -- Biography -- Computer-software-industry -- United-States -- Children's Literature General Stacks HD9696.C62 G333 1995]

Cusumano, Michael A. and Richard W. Selby, "How Microsoft Competes," Research Technology Management 39(1), Jan/Feb 1996, pp.26ff. [Microsoft employs seven complementary strategies:

1. find smart people who know the technology and the business
2. organize small teams of overlapping functional specialists
3. pioneer and orchestrate evolving mass markets
4. focus creativity by evolving features and 'firing' resources
5. do everything in parallel with frequent synchronizations
6. improve through continuous self-critiquing, feedback & sharing
7. attack the future].

Cusumano, Michael A., Microsoft secrets : how the world's most powerful software company creates technology, shapes markets, and manages people / Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby. New York : Free Press, c1995. Microsoft-Corporation. [Business Admin General Stacks HD9696.C64 M533 1995]

Gates, Bill. The Case For Microsoft Why Windows and Microsoft Office should stay under one roof TIME (TECHNOLOGY) MAY 15, 2000 VOL. 155 NO. 20

Gates, Bill. The Road Ahead. Viking/Penguin 1995.

Ichbiah, Daniel and Susan L. Knepper, The Making of Microsoft: How Bill Gates and His Team Created the World's Most Successful Software Company. Prima Publishing, Rocklin, California. 1991.

Mannes, Stephen and Paul Andrews. Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry -- and made himself the Richest Man in America. NY: Touchstone. 1993.

Moody, Fred., I sing the body electronic : a year with microsoft on the multimedia frontier. New York : Viking, 1995. [Business Admin General Stacks HD9696.C64 M5357 1995]

Wallace, James, Overdrive : Bill Gates and the race to control cyberspace / New York : J. Wiley, 1997. Microsoft-Corporation -- History. Businessmen -- United-States -- Biography. Computer-software-industry -- United-States -- History.
[Foster Business Library D9696.C62 G3379 1997]

Wallace, James, and Erickson, Jim. Hard drive : Bill Gates and the making of the Microsoft empire / James Wallace, Jim Erickson. 1st HarperBusiness ed. New York : HarperBusiness, 1993. v, 426 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Reprint. Originally published: New York : Wiley, 1992. Includes index. Contents: The early years -- "It's going to happen" -- The microkids -- Hitching a ride with big blue -- Growing pains -- King of the hill. Microsoft-Corporation -- History. Businesspeople -- United-States -- Biography. Computer-software-industry -- United-States -- History. [UW-Tacoma Lib. Stacks HD9696.C62 G3378 1993]