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The original article asking for help on describing each exhibit in our Exhibits by Number list in our ongoing Comes v. Microsoft collection project is now closed for comments. So could you please now place your contributed work here, so I can find them in an
organized way? Thank you all so much. We are really making good progress. A few directions.
Update: Just so you know, we are breaking up the one long page into 4 or more, because it's getting too long. In the meantime, post your work here or just email it to me, as you have been doing, and/or check here to make sure someone has not already done the numbers you are thinking of working on.
Update 2: The new pages are up now, so you can check what needs to be done, beginning on the new page 1 of Exhibits by Number, and you'll find navigational links there to the rest of the pages.
For those who know HTML, it would be appreciated if you include break marks and paragraph marks so I can just copy and paste. And no need to include HTML for the number of the exhibit. That's all in place. So if you would like to help out, just go to the page, see what is done already, then check here to see if anyone has left a comment with some exhibits done I may not yet have incorporated or left a note on what they are going to work on, so we don't duplicate effort. Then leave a comment yourself on what you are starting to work on, so others will also have the benefit of that info. And if I ever again suggest a huge project like this, just whisper in my ear, "Comes Collection", and I'll come to my senses right away. Kidding. Sorta.
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I don't know what is going on with our software, or with me, but when I updated
the article, the comments disappeared. So I am reconstructing as best I can:
<P>
Here are #0990, 0993, 0999
Authored by: caecer on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 11:04 PM EST
PJ: I've pasted the HTML in text mode in case some of the HTML is not
understood
by the comment box. I'll try HTML mode if you request it. The document numbers
are surrounded by <P><P> to make them stand out in both text and
HTML modes.
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time and effort needed to become productive with their<br>
computers. <br>
"Microsoft is committed
to supporting our users who<br>
choose the Macintosh and CD-ROM as part of their computing<br>
environment." said Mike Maples, senior vice president of
<br> applications for Microsoft. "With this updated CD-ROM
version<br>
of The Microsoft Office, we are providing users with an efficient<br>
way of getting the applications they need for profesional and personal
use."<br>
<br><br>
CD-ROM Version Provides Extra Benefits for Users<br>
Because these four
applications are included on one<br>
compact disk, installing them on the machines becomes a very<br>
easy task -- simply run the installation programs right from the<br>
CD; no more switching floppy disks in and out.<br>
In additioin, the storage
capabilities of CD-ROM allow the<br>
documentation to be included on the disk. This means users do<br>
not have to take the time to search their ofices for product<br>
manuals, then scan through the manuals looking for the answers.<br>
They can access all the information online -- as they need it.<br>
(Hard copies of all documentation are available from Microsoft<br>
upon request for $15.50 pulus tax.) Another benefit of CD-ROM<br>
is the audio segments that are included throughout the online<br>
documentation. These spoken tutorials talk users through a<br>
process while they watch what is happending on the computer<br>
screen.<br>
<br><br>
System Requirements, Pricing and Availability<br>
The Microsoft Office on
CD-ROM will be available in<br>
early October 1991. Version 1.5 has a suggested retail price of<br>
$750 from now until December 31, 1991. Registered users of<br>
version 1.0 may upgrade to version 1.5 for $129. (All prices<br>
listed are U.S. suggested retail prices.)<br>
The CD-ROM version of The
Microsoft Office for the<br>
Macintosh requires a Macintosh Plus, Classic, LC, SE, or II-<br>
family with an Apple or compatible CD-ROM drive; at least 2<br>
MB of RAM; and System 6.0.4 or higher. Microsoft Mail is<br>
compatible with AppleSharR and Ether TalkR, and requires an<br>
AppleTalk or compatible local area network. Additional<br>
Microsoft Mail server software must be purchased separately to<br>
use the workstation version included on the CD.<br>
<br><br>
Microsoft Corporation
(NASDAQ
"MSFT") develops,<br>
markets and supports a wide range of microcomputer software for<br>
business and professional use, including operating system,<br>
network products, languages and applications, as well as books,<br>
hardware and CD-ROM products for the microcomputer<br>
marketplace.<br>
########<br>
Microsoft and PowerPoint are registered trademarks of Microsoft<br>
Corporation.<br>
Apple, AppleTalk, AppleShare, EtherTalk and Macintosh are registered<br>
trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.<br>
<br>
<br>
####################################################### 441<br>
From scottq Mon Sep 30 17:48:06 1991<br>
To: bradsi<br>
Subject: bambi<br>
Date: Mon sep 30 17:48:00 1991<br>
<br><br>
How do you power-down your machine at night? If you are running<br>
windows and you power down, you will probably get lost clusters with or without
bambi loaded.<br>
Also, you will get lost clusters ifyou use local reboot.<br>
<br><br>
Scott<br>
<br><br>
####################################################### 442<br>
From markp Mon Sep 30 17;53:55 1991<br>
To: a-long bradsi brentk chrisq davidds davidtry jodyg johnen jont<br>
neilk richp richsa sandeeps steveja tarrib<br>
Cc: a-janj georga<br>
Subject: Re: bambi v.35<br>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 17:53:27 PDT<br>
<br><br>
Where is it, Jody?<br>
|>From jodyg Mon Sep 30 17:39:11 1991<br>
|To: a-long bradsi brentk chrisg davidds davidtry johnen jont markp<br>
|neilk richp richsa sandeeps steveja tarrib<br>
|Cc: a-janj georga<br>
|<br>
|You should update to the new version<br>
|<br>
|>From scottq Mon Sep 30 17:27:56 1991<br>
|To: bambi georgef<br>
|Subject: bambi v.35<br>
|Date: Mon Sep 30 17:27:02 1991<br>
|<br>
|<br>
|Bambi v.35 has passed developer testing. The primary change<br>
|fixes a major problem with accessing logical units on external hard
disks.<br>
|Also, DR DOS is detected (needs testing!) and bambi refuses to load.<br>
|finally, ignore was removed from the pop-up dialog box.<br>
|<br>
|Scott<br>
|<br>
<br>
<br>
<b> Privileged material redacted</b><br>
<br>
<br>
<b> Privileged material redacted</b><br>
<br>
<br>
<b> Privileged material redacted</b><br>
<br>
<br>
<b> Privileged material redacted</b><br>
<br><br>
####################################################### 444<br>
From danbo Mon Sep 30 18:02:23 1991<br>
To: corpmktg sysinfo sysmktg techmktg<br>
Subject: IBM multimedia developers conference<br>
Cc: SE cwillis nikim richbr robg<br>
Date: Mon Sep 30 17:55:11 1991<br>
<br>
<br><br>
I have a friend who attended the IBM Mulitmedia developers conference<br>
last week. Here is his brief summary of what they covered:<br>
<br><br>
IBM is working on a PS/2 Model 57 or "UltiMedia" PC, configured as
follows:<br>
<br><br>
* 4MB memory<br>
* 80 MB hard disk<br>
* CD-ROM XA drive<br>
* 386 manufactuered by IBM with built in floating point and cache<br>
equivalent to 47 mhz<br>
* XGA Video<br>
* APAC (Audio Playback and Capture) Audio board with DSP<br>
supports MIDI and WAV. DSP on this board is software programmable<br>
for 9600b modem, 9600b FA modem or JPEG compress/decompress (although<br>
the compression/decompression is not very fast).<br>
* Front Panel: Headphone jack with volume<br>
Microphone jack with volume.<br>
* SRP - $6k<br>
<br><br>
OS/2 v2.0 based mutlimedia extensions were running. ISV's present
were<br>
impressed because the extensions included synchronization for data
streams<br>
at the system level. The demon's showed video of people discussing<br>
uses and applications of multimedia in an office environment. The
demos<br>
were "high quality" and were DVI assisted. They showed DVI video
at<br>
320x200x8@26 frames per second. The DVI board they demonstrate is
100x<br>
faster than the current DVI setup. DVI is NOT standard on this
machine,<br>
although "next generation" DVI will be on the motherboard by 1993 and
this<br>
"next generation" DVI is planned to be 10x than the DVI rev
they<br>
demo'd, and is slated to support broadcast quality video.<br>
<br><br>
The machine comes with a CD containing OS/2, Windows and DOS. The
boot<br>
disk installs all three automatically without user intervention. (I
asked<br>
my friend how they dealt with users who needed to print... but that
wasn't<br>
addressed).<br>
<br><br>
IBM will License the DSP chip.<br>
They are considering licensing their 386 chip.<br>
<br><br>
Dan<br>
<br>
<br><br>
####################################################### 445<br>
From steveb Mon Sep 30 18:05:14 1991<br>
To: jonl<br>
Subject: Gordon Eubanks<br>
Cc: bradsi<br>
Date: Mon Sep 30 18:05:11 1991<br>
<P>
<P>
0993
<P>
<P>
<br><br>
<b> Non-responsive Material Redacted</b><br>
<br><br>
From chuckst Wed Nov 6 18:38:46 1991<br>
To: philba<br>
Cc: scottq<br>
Subject: Scott’s 9/30/91 mail re: DRDOS<br>
Date: Tue Feb 23 17:07:06 PDT 1993<br>
<br><br>
>From scottq Mon Sep 30 13:57:38 1991<br>
|To: dosdev<br>
|Subject: detect dr dos 6.0<br>
|Date: Mon Sep 30 13:50:35 1991<br>
|<br>
Does anybody know how to detect dr dos 6.07? Bambi will not<br>
|run property on dr dos 6.0 because of a quirk in their device driver<br>
|handling, so we need to detect them.<br>
|<br>
|Scott<br>
|<br>
From chuckst Wed Nov 6 18:40:05 1991
To: philba
Cc: scottq
Subject: More Bambi/DR-DOS mail
Date: Tue Feb 23 17:07:11 PDT 1993
<br>
<br>
|>From chuckst Sun Sep 29 17:16:46 1991<br>
|To: mikedr philba scottq<br>
|Subject: Bambi on DR-DOS 6.0<br>
|Date: Sun Sep 29 17:16:39 1991<br>
|<br>
|I tracked down a serious incompatibility with DR-DOS 6 -- They don't
use<br>
|the 'normal' device driver interface for >32M partitions. Instead
of<br>
|setting the regular START SECTOR field to 0fffh and then using a
brand<br>
|new 32-bit field the way MS-DOS has always done, they simply
extended<br>
|the start sector field by 16 bits.<br>
|<br>
|This seems like a foolish oversight on their part and will likely
result<br>
|in extensive incompatibilities when they try to run with 3rd part
device<br>
|drivers.<br>
|<br>
|I've patched a version of Bambi to work with DRD6, and it seems to
run<br>
|win 3.1 without difficulty. This same problem may have caused other<br>
|problems with Win 3.1 and the swapfile under DRD6.<br>
|<br>
|It is possible to make Bambi work, assuming we can come up with<br>
|a reasonable safe method for detecting DRD6. The runtime hit would<br>
|be minimal in time and space, although we would have a couple of<br>
|instructions in the main code path for checking the 'special' DRD6<br>
|flag.<br>
|<br>
|What do we think? Should we test further with the patched Bambi to<br>
|see if there are any more incompatibilities????<br>
|<br>
<br>
<br><br>
<b> Non-responsive Material Redacted</b><br>
<br><br>
<P>
<P>
0999
<P>
<P>
Microsoft Confidential 10/02/91<br>
Intl Win/Dos Plan<br>
______________________________________________<br>
To:Rich Abel, Brad Chase, Brad Silverberg<br>
From: Adam Taylor<br>
Cc: Win/Dos Marketing<br>
Re: Systems BU's International Windows & Dos Activities Plan<br>
___________________________________________________<br>
<br><br>
[Ed. A 6-page memorandum detailing "Systems BU's International Activities
Plan,<br>
with the headings <b>Overview</b> followed by:]<br>
<br><br>
<b>International Plan</b><br>
During FY92, the following projects will be the focus of the System
BU's<br>
International Windows & MS-Dos efforts.<br>
* Intl Marketing (Champs)<br>
-Windows Technical Workshops<br>
- Tools (Resource & Eval Kits)<br>
* Intl Product Devlopment<br>
* Foreign Market Analysis &
Reporting<br>
* Intl
Consulting/Coordination<br>
* Intl OEM Partners<br>
* Intl Sales Reporting<br>
* Subsidiary/Corporate
Communication<br>
<br>
<br>
[Ed. There follow two pages with paragraphs for each of the starred headings
above,<br>
then a page of Six Month objectives, dated July 1, 1991 (although the memo
apparently<br>
has a date of 10/02/91. The final page appears disjoint, with a different
format. It reads:]<br>
<br>
<br>
<ol type="I">
<li><b>MS-DOS must continue as the all pervasive defacto industry
DOS standard</b><br>
Over the next year the MS-DOS marketing team is dedicated to the vision of
"No PC should be without<br>
it".</li>
<li><b> All Customers</b>
<ol type="A" start="2">
<li><b>Continue MS-DOS 5 momentum and prevent DR DOS from gaining
it<br>
Create Pull and Push to get the installed base to Upgrade and ensure customers
are<br>
demanding MS-DOS 5 from their OEMs.</b>
<ol>
<li>Build customer trust and knowledge of the MS-DOS name
<ul>
<li>Reach broad audience with MS-DOS 5 message via enthusiast and
business press</li>
<li>Use resellers and the marketing activities they
generate</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Establish MS-DOS 5 as the DOS standard
<ul>
<li>Careful review of press activities</li>
<li>Demonstrate industry support</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Ensure unparalleled customer satisfaction
<ul>
<li>Innovative and responsive PSS</li>
<li>Transition team support for large corporate adoption</li>
<li> Build tools and materials to get customers the information they
need</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Aggressive marketing - pull and push
<ul>
<li>DosDay Technical seminars</li>
<li>User Groups</li>
<li>Ongoging PR</li>
<li>Promotions</li>
<li>Close partnership with resellers and aggressive marketing to
them</li>
<li>At least one new and big idea</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
</ol>
</li>
<li><b>PC Manufacturers</b>
<ol type="A">
<li><b>Aggressively go after existing DR DOS accounts and keep
them out of our current ones</b>
<ol>
<li> No major OEMs bundling DR DOS</li>
<li> Secure long term MS-DOS 5 contracts (3 or more years) whenever
possible</li>
<li> If possible, keep IBM from shipping DR DOS</li>
<li> Train our OEM sales force on MS-DOS 5, DR DOS 5 &
6</li>
<li> Learn if there are ways we can help in subsidiaries where DR DOS
is strong</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><b>Consequential and Profitable increase in MS-DOS penetration
on new PCs</b>
<ol>
<li> Successful development of and implementation of Thin
DOS</li>
<li> Legal and PR efforts to discourage counterfeiting and grey
marketing</li>
<li> Assess effectiveness of current anti-counterfeiting packaging
efforts</li>
<li> Explore other anti-counterfeiting ideas - advertising
etc.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><b>Establish worldwide leadership with Portable and Embedded
systems</b>
<ol>
<li> Every new palmtop and pc with dos in ROM should be ROM DOS
5</li>
<li> Establish leadership with solid state media and advanced power
management
<ul>
<li> Aggressive pr effort</li>
<li> Training and information for oems</li>
<li> Train our sales force on ROM DOS 5</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><b>OEM customer satisfaction</b>
<ol>
<li> Assess the support we are currently providing OEMs and recommend
improvements<br>
if necessary, particularly in the area of technical support.</li>
<li> Address OEM product improvement requests</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li> <b>Installed Base</b>
<ol type="A">
<li><b>Migrate current PC users to MS-DOS 5</b>
<ol>
<li>Provide an easy and inexpensive solution to ensure users can
upgrade larger quantities of pcs</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li value="3"><b>Understand customers' usage and their
product satisfaction</b>
<ol>
<li> Random digit dial projectable user survey</li>
<li> Detailed PSS reporting and incorporation of product issues into
future product specifications</li>
</ol>
</li>
</li>
</ol>
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Well, that depends...
Authored by: Bernard [218.185.86.146] on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 11:03 PM EST
...on whether PJ is the "lounge on the beach / by the pool
with a good book"
kind of gal, or the kind who prefers slightly more active
recreation (skiing, diving, trekking, etc).
Lots of good options for both active & relaxed vacations.
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Done 00341 to 00349
Authored by: NobodyYouKnow [4.155.18.117] on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 11:00 PM
EST
Comes 341
16 page memo to a long list of Microsoft people, plus Marianne Allison (The
Waggener Group) and Mike Dalman (Ogilvy & Mather).<p>
'Steve Ballmer' is handwritten in the upper right-hand corner (partially cut
off). Also handwritten on the right side:<br>
Bradsi <br>
Markche<br>
Looks pretty good. A few comments. Steveb<p>
To: List<br>
From: Mark Chestnut<br>
Date: 7/24/90<br>
Subject: MS-DOS Upgrade Marketing Plan<p>
The last page of the memo discusses competition for the
MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade from IBM's PC-DOS and DRI's DR DOS. <p>
Comes 342
Two page letter on Borland letterhead. The 4 page PDF file contains two copies
of the letter. Also see Comes exhibits 260 and 330 for context. <p>
July 24, 1990<p>
To Brad Silverberg<br>
From Philippe Kahn<br>
Cc Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Eugene Wang, Rick Schell<p>
Philippe is complaining that Microsoft's response to Borland's request for
access or licenses to various Windows programs and specifications is
inadequate.
<p>
Comes 343
Memo on Microsoft letterhead<p>
To: John Parkey<br>
From: Jon Reingold<br>
Subject: Win Word Strategy<br>
Date: July 24, 1990<p>
The memo mostly discusses what criticisms to level against WordPerfect and make
Word look good in comparison. <p>
Comes 346
One page memo, no letterhead. Marked Highly Confidential. Portions redacted.
<p>
To: File<br>
From: Paul Sribhibhadh<br>
Date: July 26, 1990<br>
Re: MS-DOS license for Technology Research Company Ltd.<p>
Discusses reasons and terms for license with TRC. TRC was
associated with the government of China (PRC), which Microsoft wanted to have
good relations with. Final price for MS-DOS was $27 per system.<p>
Comes 349
email. This is a more complete version of one of the emails in Comes exhibit
339A. <p>
From gregw Tue Jul 31 23:56:40 1990<br>
To: billg darrylr jeffr mikemap<br>
Cc: bradsi jabeb lloydfr tonyw<br>
Subject: Re: GO Threat<br>
Date: Tue Jul 31 23:42:48 1990<p>
The author regards GO's object oriented framework as the real competitive
threat
to Microsoft in GO's product. <p>
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They make 55,500 each at current .37 price
Authored by: Anonymous [74.36.132.122] on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 10:48 PM
EST
I threw this into OOCalc and ran the totals (below). They show each will have a
profit of $55,500 at todays price of .37 per share. The total for all would be
$333,000. I guess when your bankrupt, that's just chump change. ---:-)
Name Date Expiry Strike Outstanding
Exerciseable @.37 @strike profit Totals
Campbell, Daniel W 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Campbell, Daniel W 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Campbell, Daniel W 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 15000 15000 30000 11100 3900 7200
Campbell, Daniel W 4/13/2009 4/13/2019 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Campbell, Daniel W 1/29/2009 1/29/2019 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Campbell, Daniel W 9/15/2008 9/15/2018 $0.15 10000 10000 20000 7400 3000 4400
Campbell, Daniel W 6/16/2008 6/16/2018 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Campbell, Daniel W 4/23/2008 4/23/2018 $0.10 15000 15000 30000 11100 3000 8100
Campbell, Daniel W 3/17/2008 3/17/2018 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Campbell, Daniel
W 02/01/08 02/01/18 $0.08 10000 10000 20000 7400 1600 5800 55500
Leeman, Omar T 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Leeman, Omar T 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Leeman, Omar T 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 15000 15000 30000 11100 3900 7200
Leeman, Omar T 4/13/2009 4/13/2019 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Leeman, Omar T 1/29/2009 1/29/2019 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Leeman, Omar T 9/15/2008 9/15/2018 $0.15 10000 10000 20000 7400 3000 4400
Leeman, Omar T 6/16/2008 6/16/2018 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Leeman, Omar T 4/23/2008 4/23/2018 $0.10 15000 15000 30000 11100 3000 8100
Leeman, Omar T 3/17/2008 3/17/2018 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Leeman, Omar T 02/01/08 02/01/18 $0.08 10000 10000 20000 7400 1600 5800 55500
Milligan, J Kent 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Milligan, J Kent 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Milligan, J Kent 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 15000 15000 30000 11100 3900 7200
Milligan, J Kent 4/13/2009 4/13/2019 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Milligan, J Kent 1/29/2009 1/29/2019 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Milligan, J Kent 9/15/2008 9/15/2018 $0.15 10000 10000 20000 7400 3000 4400
Milligan, J Kent 6/16/2008 6/16/2018 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Milligan, J Kent 4/23/2008 4/23/2018 $0.10 15000 15000 30000 11100 3000 8100
Milligan, J Kent 3/17/2008 3/17/2018 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Milligan, J Kent 02/01/08 02/01/18 $0.08 10000 10000 20000 7400 1600 5800 55500
Mott, Darcy 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Mott, Darcy 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Mott, Darcy 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 15000 15000 30000 11100 3900 7200
Mott, Darcy 4/13/2009 4/13/2019 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Mott, Darcy 1/29/2009 1/29/2019 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Mott, Darcy 9/15/2008 9/15/2018 $0.15 10000 10000 20000 7400 3000 4400
Mott, Darcy 6/16/2008 6/16/2018 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Mott, Darcy 4/23/2008 4/23/2018 $0.10 15000 15000 30000 11100 3000 8100
Mott, Darcy 3/17/2008 3/17/2018 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Mott, Darcy 02/01/08 02/01/18 $0.08 10000 10000 20000 7400 1600 5800 55500
Thomson, Duff 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Thomson, Duff 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Thomson, Duff 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 15000 15000 30000 11100 3900 7200
Thomson, Duff 4/13/2009 4/13/2019 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Thomson, Duff 1/29/2009 1/29/2019 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Thomson, Duff 9/15/2008 9/15/2018 $0.15 10000 10000 20000 7400 3000 4400
Thomson, Duff 6/16/2008 6/16/2018 $0.10 10000 10000 20000 7400 2000 5400
Thomson, Duff 4/23/2008 4/23/2018 $0.10 15000 15000 30000 11100 3000 8100
Thomson, Duff 3/17/2008 3/17/2018 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
Thomson, Duff 02/01/08 02/01/18 $0.08 10000 10000 20000 7400 1600 5800 55500
Yarro, Ralf J. 08/03/09 08/03/19 $0.13 10000 10000 20000 7400 2600 4800
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:13 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
800-849 already done
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 05:27 AM EST
I did these and posted them in the previous article but they haven't been added
to the collection yet. Please do not duplicate this work.
Danny, Sydney.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:14 PM EST |
Reconstructing, and note that #407 relates to ways to compete against
WordPerfect:
I'm working on 0401 - 0449
Authored by: brooker on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 11:58 PM EST
Will be posting some of them soon. I'm going to go back through them and add
the
HTML tags.
:)
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:15 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
Comments on exhibits 343 and 349
Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 11:20 PM EST
I remember reading in some or other computer magazine things reminiscent of the
PR line advocated in 343. Muscling WordPerfect out of the word processor market
was probably the worst thing Microsoft ever did to those of use who actually
had
to use word processors. At the time (early 90s) that Word was displacing
WordPerfect, Word simply was not appropriate for documents of any size or
complexity (it didn't help that PC's of the time were usually sold without
enough RAM, and Word was a notorious memory hog). It wasn't until service pack
1 for Office 97 that Word was reasonably bug-free.
The interesting thing that I noted in 349 was how much of the discussion was
complete nonsense. "On the notebook, detatched from rest of the world, the
security of separate processes is unnecessary." Apparently Microsofties at
the time had all drunk the object oriented Koolaid. Hindsight shows what a
horrible mistake that was. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:16 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
Done 00341 to 00349
Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 11:00 PM EST
Comes 341
16 page memo to a long list of Microsoft people, plus Marianne Allison (The
Waggener Group) and Mike Dalman (Ogilvy & Mather).<p>
'Steve Ballmer' is handwritten in the upper right-hand corner (partially cut
off). Also handwritten on the right side:<br>
Bradsi <br>
Markche<br>
Looks pretty good. A few comments. Steveb<p>
To: List<br>
From: Mark Chestnut<br>
Date: 7/24/90<br>
Subject: MS-DOS Upgrade Marketing Plan<p>
The last page of the memo discusses competition for the
MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade from IBM's PC-DOS and DRI's DR DOS. <p>
Comes 342
Two page letter on Borland letterhead. The 4 page PDF file contains two copies
of the letter. Also see Comes exhibits 260 and 330 for context. <p>
July 24, 1990<p>
To Brad Silverberg<br>
From Philippe Kahn<br>
Cc Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Eugene Wang, Rick Schell<p>
Philippe is complaining that Microsoft's response to Borland's request for
access or licenses to various Windows programs and specifications is
inadequate.
<p>
Comes 343
Memo on Microsoft letterhead<p>
To: John Parkey<br>
From: Jon Reingold<br>
Subject: Win Word Strategy<br>
Date: July 24, 1990<p>
The memo mostly discusses what criticisms to level against WordPerfect and make
Word look good in comparison. <p>
Comes 346
One page memo, no letterhead. Marked Highly Confidential. Portions redacted.
<p>
To: File<br>
From: Paul Sribhibhadh<br>
Date: July 26, 1990<br>
Re: MS-DOS license for Technology Research Company Ltd.<p>
Discusses reasons and terms for license with TRC. TRC was
associated with the government of China (PRC), which Microsoft wanted to have
good relations with. Final price for MS-DOS was $27 per system.<p>
Comes 349
email. This is a more complete version of one of the emails in Comes exhibit
339A. <p>
From gregw Tue Jul 31 23:56:40 1990<br>
To: billg darrylr jeffr mikemap<br>
Cc: bradsi jabeb lloydfr tonyw<br>
Subject: Re: GO Threat<br>
Date: Tue Jul 31 23:42:48 1990<p>
The author regards GO's object oriented framework as the real competitive
threat
to Microsoft in GO's product. <p>
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:17 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
Working 00341 to 00349
Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 05:59 PM EST
What the title says.
Unless there's some objection, if I see something I think comment-worthy, but
not appropriate for the exhibit blurb itself, I'll add it in a separate
comment.
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:18 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
Note about format of blurbs and transcripts
Authored by: bugstomper on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 05:02 PM EST
I submitted a blurb for a document that was a series of emails that formed a
thread, in which I typed up the From/To/Date/Subject headers of the first email,
a short description of what the discussion was about, and then a paragraph about
the significance of that discussion, which I knew foreshadowed some antitrust
and patent infringement suits against Microsoft a couple of years later. Just
now I noticed this comment by PJ to someone else saying that we should not do
that in these submissions. I'm posting it here where it will be more visible to
help clarify the task to anyone else who might make the same mistake I did.
Quoting PJ:
I don't want you to introduce information from your own personal knowledge
or to comment on whether it's of interest or not or anything personal. If it's
an email, provide the headers, so we know all that, including the date. If any
companies are mentioned, like Novell or DRI, note it. If Linux is mentioned,
note it. Then if you see something in the email worthy of being quoted, do that.
The idea of this project it to make the collection searchable by keywords.
Novell and Microsoft were unable to achieve that, so Novell was left with
incomplete information on which to base its litigation. That is what we are
trying to fix. So your thoughts, or mine, are not useful. What is useful is
keywords.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:21 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
php nl2br
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 05:07 PM EST
There is a function in php
to translate all new lines to a <br>
if you want me to make a tool for you let me know.
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:27 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
PJ vacation locations anyone?
Authored by: LaurenceTux on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 05:58 PM EST
So when this thing wraps up where are we going to send PJ??[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:31 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
Comments on exhibits 343 and 349
Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Sunday, January 10 2010 @ 11:20 PM EST
I remember reading in some or other computer magazine things reminiscent of the
PR line advocated in 343. Muscling WordPerfect out of the word processor market
was probably the worst thing Microsoft ever did to those of use who actually
had
to use word processors. At the time (early 90s) that Word was displacing
WordPerfect, Word simply was not appropriate for documents of any size or
complexity (it didn't help that PC's of the time were usually sold without
enough RAM, and Word was a notorious memory hog). It wasn't until service pack
1 for Office 97 that Word was reasonably bug-free.
The interesting thing that I noted in 349 was how much of the discussion was
complete nonsense. "On the notebook, detatched from rest of the world, the
security of separate processes is unnecessary." Apparently Microsofties at
the time had all drunk the object oriented Koolaid. Hindsight shows what a
horrible mistake that was. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:38 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
Red Hat CEO On Recession, Virtualization, Ballmer
Authored by: MadTom1999 on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 09:29 AM EST
'If that happens, "the code will fork, which is one of the worst things
that can happen to open source code," he said.'
I hate to disagree -
Granted that Monty going off in a little huff and forking it would be a bad
thing- but if Oracle try to smother it then the code fork would be the best
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 01:42 PM EST |
Reconstructing:
Off topic thread here
Authored by: txwikinger on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 10:14 AM EST
I have heard that Blackboard and Desire2Learn have settled
their patent infringement dispute, and desire2learn has
removed all the litigation documents from their website.
This shows how important it is to archive all such litigation
documents on neutral independent sites. Hopefully this is
done somewhere for this case.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: turambar386 on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 02:31 PM EST |
| I still have some in the old story that haven't been added to the page yet
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 11 2010 @ 02:39 PM EST |
Could build a workplace for folks to deposit this stuff on a side blog?
Maybe, don't know?
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| Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Tuesday, January 12 2010 @ 07:31 AM EST |
| What it says. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: UncleJosh on Wednesday, January 13 2010 @ 01:32 PM EST |
It is a 20 page report from the "Microsoft RISC PC Taskforce" entitled
"Responses to the Compaq SPARC Threat" so it will take a bit.
Favorite quote:
This is another way of saying that Microsoft is not much like Compaq - it is
difficult to work up enthusiam for buying into sombody else's game and their
rules and still beating them through superior execution. Compaq only has
experience in succeeding at this strategy against IBM, which is a very slow
moving company that does not know how to execute all that well, and does not
even under stand how to press their advantage. With a couple of minor changes
in strategy, IBM could have eliminated Compaq's big claims to fame - for example
if IBM had wanted to do the 386 first, Intel would have put the fix in for them
and the Deskpro 386 never would have ben. With the right licensing terms and up
front negotiations, IBM could have had Compaq and the rest of the industry
locked into the MCA bus and there wouldn't have been an EISA. IBM is not
ruthless, innovative or even all that ambitious, and Compaq may discover that
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| Authored by: turambar386 on Wednesday, January 13 2010 @ 03:38 PM EST |
| have to mix it up a bit to keep it interesting. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 13 2010 @ 06:08 PM EST |
| I still don't see these exhibits incorporated. Any reason? [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: turambar386 on Thursday, January 14 2010 @ 08:28 AM EST |
I notice that some of the exhibits that I am working on how are stamped as
exhibit numbers for another, unfortunately illegible case (along with the newer
Comes exhibit stamp). Is this information important to note at all?[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: turambar386 on Thursday, January 14 2010 @ 08:41 AM EST |
| switching to top of last page as per PJ's request. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Thursday, January 14 2010 @ 10:58 PM EST |
| What the title says. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: clicky_maker on Friday, January 15 2010 @ 07:20 AM EST |
Short agenda.
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| Authored by: brooker on Friday, January 15 2010 @ 08:38 PM EST |
These are finished and sent to Pj: PX00401. PX00402, PX00407, PX00409,PX00414,
PX00420, PX00426, PX00427,PX00431, PX00437, PX00438,PX00440, PX00441,
PX00443,PX00446, PX00447, PX00448, PX00449.
I'm starting on these next: PX03000, PX04053, PX04055, PX04058, PX04059,
PX04062, PX04065, PX04066,PX04068, PX04069, PX04070, PX04071, PX04072, PX04073,
PX04075, PX04076, PX04077, PX04079, PX04081, PX04082,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 17 2010 @ 10:24 AM EST |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 17 2010 @ 12:44 PM EST |
<p>
Windows Everywhere<br/>
Strategy for Success<br/>
DOS/Windows Business Unit<br/>
November 13, 1990<br/>
</p><p>
Product stategies including; DOS, Windows, OS/2.
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| Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Monday, January 18 2010 @ 09:57 PM EST |
| What it says. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: mattflaschen on Tuesday, January 19 2010 @ 07:34 PM EST |
| I finished 288-309 on Jan. 6, but the text still hasn't been posted (however someone else's 299 has
been used), nor have I got any feedback. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Wednesday, January 20 2010 @ 05:22 AM EST |
| What the title says. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: brooker on Wednesday, January 20 2010 @ 09:37 AM EST |
PX02846, PX06394, PLEX00448, PX00401, PX00401, PX00402, PX00402, PX00407,
PX00409, PX00414, PX00416, PX00420, PX00426, PX00427, PX00431, PX00437, PX00438,
PX00440, PX00441, PX00443, PX00446, PX00447, PX00449, PX00743, PX00928, PX02062,
PX02768, PX03000, PX04073, PX04275, PX04081, PX05401, PX06482, PX7255, PX08175,
PX08256[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: NobodyYouKnow on Thursday, January 21 2010 @ 11:51 PM EST |
What the title says.
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| Authored by: brooker on Friday, January 22 2010 @ 08:02 PM EST |
Exhibits PX00307, PX00356, PX00288 finished and sent to Pj.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 23 2010 @ 01:49 PM EST |
<p>People mentioned<br/>
Mike Narvike<br/>
Richard Fade<br/>
Toshi Miakanohra<br/>
BillG<br/>
Kiyokazo Omi<br/>
Ken Nakayama<br/>
</p>
<p>DEC 1991 STATUS REPORT<br/>
MSKK OEM SALES
</p><p>
Revenues, issues, news and goals.<br/>
<br/>
Companies/products menitoned<br/>
OS/2<br/>
Kanji SQL Server<br/>
Pen-windows<br/>
IBM<br/>
NTT Data<br/>
FUJITSU<br/>
NEC<br/>
LSI<br/>
NBC<br/>
TOSHIBA<br/>
EPSON<br/>
Rioch<br/>
JVC<br/>
Fuji Xerox<br/>
Mitsumi<br/>
<br/></p>
<p>
SEPT 1991 STATUS REPORT<br/>
Revenues, issues, news and goals.<br/>
<br/>Companies mentioned<br/>
Fujitsu<br/>
LSI<br/>
SONY<br/>
Matsushita<br/>
Kobe Steel<br/>
KOBELCO<br/>
LSI<br/>
OLIVETTI/AST<br/>
PAK-IN-VIDEO<br/>
MEI<br/>
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