In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a company that was anything but micro and never soft in its ambition. A Company that had the tenacity to be the largest, most productive companies in its class and proclaimed it as Microsoft. This market innovator soon developed the technology to become the leader in the field of computer programming. Gates and Allen both had big plans for this modernistic company and came up with different ways of managing people and products in order to create possibly the most effective and versatile workforce of any corporation in existence. To study Microsoft's way of doing business is to look at the company from many angles, from a managerial and organizational standpoint to its process of developing products and services for its customers. To truly understand Microsoft's way of doing business is to view how the companies different project groups and divisions work together to create superb products that the consumers desire, there really is no!
             one true secret to Microsoft's success.
             >From an organizational standpoint, Microsoft begins its process by using an extensive interviewing process to sift out the smartest, most qualified individuals to perform all the tasks associated with their specific workgroups workload. "We start using the very best practices, which was just hiring great people and having small teams...", Gates said of his selective hiring process. Every group manager, line manager and program manager not only has the leadership and managerial skills needed to keep the process moving along, but also the technical skills to train their subordinates. With a leader who possesses the technical skills, decisions can be made without consulting technical advisors, and can be made with a great degree of accuracy. Regarding his choice of middle management Gates stated "We don't have non-technical management trying to make technical trade-off."
             Microsoft often promotes from within, si...