Microsoft Outlines ‘Intranet’ Strategy
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday outlined plans to modify the company’s programs and programming tools for businesses to use with so-called “intranets,” internal data networks based on the technical standards of the Internet.
The changes are important for the company to maintain a leading role in software design.
More companies are starting to use the design principle of the World Wide Web, where information on one computer can be linked to another without a cumbersome command, to their internal data systems.
“Intranets will have an immediate and dramatic impact on businesses over the next few years - but this is just the beginning,” Gates told several hundred business executives and industry analysts.