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Another key component of Microsoft’s informality is its seductive E-mail (electronic messaging) system, which Shirley says epitomizes the corporate culture at Microsoft. Workers can message each other - even Gates and Shirley - day and night, to and from home or office computers, in an instant communications network that, Shirley notes, “flattens the corporate hierarchy considerably.” The sophisticated system displays a queue showing the time and date and sender’s “log-on,” or nickname, for each message and a brief description of its contents.
— Inside Microsoft - A ‘Velvet Sweatshop’ or a High-Tech Heaven?, April 23, 1989