Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> From: Bill Gates
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 12:44 PM
> To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
> Cc: Paul Maritz
> Subject: Office rendering
>
> One thing we have got to change in 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 avoid doing something to destory Windows.
> HIGHLY
> CONFIDENTIAL
Its highly confidential alright - it lets the world and dog know that
micoshat has NO intentions to allow interoperability across its
oriffice products. If you are a great company or a small company,
let micoshaft oriffice die I say. It serves no purpose in your company
if micoshaft its owners have no intention of allowing integration
and extending office functions if micoshaft isn't about sharing its
oriffice products and features. Don't ever again allow any new
micoshaft products in your company and replace everything with Open Office.
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