After takin' a swig o' grog, Doug Mentohl belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> on 01/03/2007 10:05 Doug Mentohl wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>> Good to see that this new host has already won some
>>> exposure. Do you happen to know if it's complete?
>
>> Don't know, but their are a number of parties creating
> > archives and are looking for space.
>
> 'Yet more criticism of Microsoft's business practices has emerged in the
> wake of the recent Iowa anti-trust trial'
>
> http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/index.cfm?newsid=17394
Documentary evidence that Microsoft considered abandoning Office for
Mac in order to cause "a great deal of harm" to Apple has emerged.
An emailed memo from Microsoft-founder Bill Gates to then Mac
Business Unit chief Ben Waldman dated June 1997 talks about morale in
the Mac Office development camp.
At that time Microsoft's senior management were considering dumping
Mac support.
The email complains at poor sales of Office, which it attributes to a
lack of focus on making such sales among reps at that time.
It describes dumping development of the product as: "The strongest
bargaining point we have, as doing so will do a great deal of harm to
Apple immediately."
Nice guys. FPOS businessmen.
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