Microsoft Annual Report editorial

For things to work together, there needs to be equal respect for the demands of organizations and the needs of individuals, between a way of doing things, and a way to make what you’re doing your own. With what we learn from our customers and what we discover in our work the goals driving Microsoft technology today are to achieve true integration and reduce complexity. To make information, and the ideas that information represents, even more transportable, compatible, flexible, malleable. Windows lets you reach these goals by doing exactly what the name implies: making technology transparent.

So that when you work, you experience your work, not your operating system and not your application. From the power of Windows NT to the performance and accessibility of Windows 95 to the portability of Windows CE, complexity is being transformed into ease, giving you what you want, when and how you want it, wherever you want it. And that’s possible only because Windows is conceived and built as a standard for computing.