__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 02 March 2007 12:26 \__
> From: Brad Chase
> Sent: Friday, MAy 15, 1998 3:57 PM
> To Walt Massberg (E-mail); Bill Gates
> Cc: Brad Chase
> Subject: Windows 98
>
> .. if oems can boot up into an alternative shell then what is Windows?
> we market and invest significant R&O into Windows and if anyone can
> change its initial UI then that impacts peoples understanding of
> windows. in addition it sets up a situation where our competitors can
> try to replace Windows with their own UI and aps. again an oem could
> ship these UIs and APIs today but it is a lot to ask us to have the
> users first boot and experience with Windows be, not Windows but a
> competitive shell or OS.
>
> take the wsj for example. you ship via delivery people, they are your
> oems. you have dominant share of the daily news market. what if the
> delivery people could substitute someone's else's front page for your
> own and further more what if it was not even clear that it wasn't the wsj?
>
> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2905.pdf
Microsoft Shuts Down Linux 10 Years Ago Says Iowa Attorney
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| Going back now to as early as 1998, Microsoft starts to realize that
| Linux might pose a possible threat, and Vinod Valloppillil, who is
| a program manager at Microsoft, is asked by Mr. Allchin, Jim Allchin,
| to analyze potential strategies for combatting open-source software,
| and specifically Linux.
| His memos are leaked to the press in April -- I beg your pardon --
| in October of 1998 and become known as the Halloween documents.
| And the evidence will be that Microsoft uses its influence in the
| OEM channel, the computer manufacture channel, to make sure that
| end users have a difficult time buying PCs with Linux preinstalled.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Linux_10_Years_Ago_Says_Iowa_Attorney
Microsoft's Dirty OEM-Secret
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| They are, in short the secret to Microsoft's success. And the word
| secret is to be taken quite literally: No OEM may talk about the
| contents of his contract, or he will lose his license, and (assumption)
| likely be sued for breach of contract as well.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
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