__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 20 April 2007 19:01 \__
> From: Brad Silverberg
> To: David Cole, John Ludwig, Eric Rudder, Mack Mccauley
> Subject: Norton Desktop for Windows
> Date: Friday, May 15, 1992 5:24 PM
>
> From: Aaron Getz
> To: Brad Silverberg
> Subject: Norton Desktop for Windows
> Date: Friday, May 15, 1992 5:24 PM
>
> I've been using Norton Desktop as my shell for a couple of weeks now.
> My overall reaction is mixed.
>
> I hated the last version of Norton Desktop. It was excruciatingly slow,
> it's interrace was inelegant, and the directory tree structure was
> already expanded. Of course, I was comparing this to Win 3.1's file
> manager and program manager.
>
> I generally like this version of Norton Desktop. The only reason I'm
> tempted to stop using it is because applications are running annoyingly
> slow on my machine. I've got an fast 386sx/20 with 6meg of memory. I'm
> not really sure if this is a result of 'Stacker', an old version of
> 'Bullet' or 'Norton Desktop'. The new version of Desktop seems much
> speedier than the old when you are actually using the shell.
>
> The main functionality that I use is the ability to mix program items
> and groups in the top level of the program manager. This has basically
> saved me all my juggling with the present day program manager. Part of
> what makes this nice is the very well integrated and fairly large icon
> library.
>
> Having the file manager windows be SMI is also an improvement,. Because
> of the fact that they are not clipped by an upper level window and the
> default size and positioning of windows, it is very easy to open two
> file manager windows on the screen. This is critical for easy of
> move/copy operations. The fact that the drive icons do not have friendly
> names is a big minus.
>
> I used SmartErase for awhile, but it caused some problems so I turned it
> off. The whole process was a pain i n the rear.
>
> Viewers are cool in concept, but they are two slow, and seemingly
> non-interruptible. It is almost always easier to just open the file. I
> love the view functionality which exists in Word 2.0
>
> I don't drag items to the desktop to create push buttons. This just
> clutters up my screen. The ability to put the items directly into the
> main group of the program manager makes this unnecessary. I just use
> this window when I want to launch things. At the beginning ..
>
> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04253_A.pdf
Microsoft innovation. Start your photocopiers.
,----[ Quote ]
| From: Ben Slivka;
| Sent Tuesday, October 24 1995 10:18 PM
| To: Brad Silberberg (Xenix); John Ludqig; Chris Jones; Paul Maritz (Xenix)
| Cc: Thomas Reardon
| Subject: No Half Measures: How we should meet the Netscape Challenge
|
| After the billg Internet review today, here are my thoughts on the
| priorities for PSD and the rest of Microsoft .. I think we should have
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| to do even more cloning (esp. LiveScript) of Netscape, and we have to
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| focus on Win95 - not Nashville.
|
| [...]
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_5735.pdf
,----[ Quote ]
| From: Ben Slivka
| Sent: Wednesday, November01, 1995 7:38 PM
| To: Ben Slivka's internet Client Team (Xerox DL)
| Subject: Getting to 30% Share Memo
|
| Here is final copy of the memo we sent to BillG for think week about
| what we should do to get 30% browser share. Pls do not distribute broadly.
|
| [...]
|
| 2. Clone and Supernet Netscape. PSD needs to get serious about cloning
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Netscape. We must have a plan to clone all the features they have today,
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| plus new ones they will add between now and our next release. We have to
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| make this our only top priority and put our top people on the job. In
| addition to our planned Win32.OLE work, we have to get serious about
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| extending and owning HTML as a format ..
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| [....]
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5071.pdf
,----[ Quote ]
| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
The Redmond Copying Machine?
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| My recent video, which tweaked Microsoft for crowing about its
| "innovation" in Windows Vista (without acknowledging its huge debt
| to Mac OS X), triggered plenty of reaction. It probably comes as no
| surprise that your comments quickly devolved into "which is better"
| bickering, which will proably never end.
|
| [...]
|
| Then this e-mail message, which arrived today from a guy who says
| he worked as a Microsoft temp employee from 2003 to 2004. I've
| agreed not to publish his name.
|
| [...]
|
| "Around the corner was another grid, showing the RealPlayer
| application. This grid was the same: grid A1 was the front userv
| iew of the application, mirroring what was on the iTunes wall/grid.
|
| "Around the next corner was another grid, this one showing Windows
| Media Player version 9 !! This one was missing a few tiles in the
| grid, but you could actually see the progress as each feature [of
| iTunes and RealPlayer] was copied, square for square.
|
| "Amazing. New software is put out, a manager sees it and decides that the
| creative part of their day is making color screen captures of the
| software and presenting it to the copying--er, engineering team."
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
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