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Microsoft PR outlaws iPhone talk
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| A Microsoft manager created a bit of a fuss by
| advising a journalist not to mention the iPhone
| at a Microsoft event in Germany, betraying
| frayed nerves in the MS camp.
|
| The journalist was apparently guilty of
| expressing his opinion that no mobile phone was
| easier to use than an iPhone. We might disagree
| with that opinion*, but we wouldn't demand he
| stop mentioning Apple products, as one
| Microsoft manager did.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/10/microsoft_iphone/
Same with Linux...
"I am convinced we have to use Windows â this is the one thing they donât have.
We have to be competitive with features, but we need something more â Windows
integration."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
"I donât understand how IE is going to win. The current path is simply to copy
everything that Netscape does packaging and product wise."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
"We should dedicate a cross-group team to come up with ways to leverage Windows
technically more."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
"I feel we are much too smug in dealing with Novell. Perhaps they didnât hurt
us in DOS yet â but itâs not because of product or their trying. Itâs because
we already had the OEMs wrapped up."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
"LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this problem. If we are
to rise to the challenge of Linux..."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
Recent:
The facts behind Microsoft's anti-Linux 'Get the Facts' campaign
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| Back in 2002, Jim Allchin was co-president of Microsoft's Platforms and
| Services Division and was, in his own words, "scared" of the momentum behind
| Linux, as noted in an email [PDF] sent to several of his direct reports.
|
| Why scared? Because Windows was starting to lose to Linux:
|
| My conclusion: We are net on a path to win against Linux We must change
| some things and we must do it immediately. The current white papers, etc.
| are too high level and they are not going to cut it.
|
| So what did Allchin do? As court documents in the Comes vs. Microsoft
| antitrust suit demonstrate, and as Roy Schestowitz points out on his blog,
| Allchin started to buy facts. Lots of facts.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10145332-16.html?part=rss
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