Microsoft signals big shift toward online services
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Bill Gates and a rising Microsoft leader are exhorting the company to act "quickly and decisively" to realign its business around online services -- calling for a major overhaul to rise to a challenge as big as when Gates first acknowledged the Internet's significance a decade ago.
In a confidential Oct. 30 message to Microsoft's top executives, Gates made it clear that he considered the new Windows Live and Office Live online services, unveiled two days later, only the start of a fundamental shift in the company's business.