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| Authored by: foulis on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 02:40 PM EDT |
<b>From:</b> Bill Gates<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 21, 2000 11:10 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Will Poole; Jim Allchin<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Eric Rudder; Chris Jones; Mike Beckerman<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Windows and Multimedia</p>
This is a good plan</p>
----Original Message----<br>
<b>From: Will Poole</b><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 21, 2000 10:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bill Gates; Jim Allchin<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Eric Rudder; Chris Jones; Mike Beckerman; Will
Poole<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Windows and Multimedia</p>
Bill, I understand and hear these issues. We have two actions now:</p>
1. Review current Whistler shell integration with you. It is better than you
think, but clearly can go further. This is scheduled within the next couple of
weeks I believe.</p>
2. Develop a clear technology strategy that outlines current philosophy of media
integration in Windows, addresses medium [backcomb] and long term opportunities
to do further integration with IE, Mars, etc., and provide rational answers to
the questions below. ChrisJo and I discussed this need the other day; we're all
in agreement that we need more integration, less duplication, and a strategy
that we can all get behind fully. We should deliver this by 1st week in
January.</p>
Does this sound OK?</p>
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----Original Message----<br>
<b>From:</b> Bill Gates<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 21, 2000 10:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jim Allchin<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Will Poole;Eric Rudder<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Windows and Multimedia</p>
It seems to me that we are not on an approach to have Windows and Multimedia
cone together.</p>
Today the Windows Media Player is essentially its own world. It uses a database
to track properties. It uses its own UI for everything.</p>
The media player does not integrate with the browser. In fact when you click on
some multimedia thing the browser does one funny thing and the player something
else.</p>
We have a chance to innovate by getting the player and the browser to be one
product - not two different products.</p>
We have done that with Mars but there is a lot of negative feedback out of the
WMP group about the idea of not having the player as a separate application on
its own.</p>
I don't understand our philosophy. Should they be a different search command for
music that you get to by running WMP? When you want a set of radio stations
should that be completely different than a set of file or a set of
printer?</p>
Should the forms approach used inside the player have any relationship to the
forms approach of the OS? When you skin the OS should the forms styles apply to
the player or just be separate?</p>
If someone wants to write VB code to customize their player should they be able
to do that?</p>
Lets say I want to take some photos and sequence them with some music in the
background - which UI do I use for files</p>
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like this - the WMP shell or the Windows shell?</p>
A lot of our staffing size comes from having so many different ways of users
doing things.</p>
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