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4433

Authored by: feldegast on Sunday, March 17 2013 @ 09:06 AM EDT

PLAINTIFF'S 
EXHIBIT 
4433 
Comes v. Microsoft 
 
Carl Stittig - OEM Sales 
Microsoft Corporation 
One Microsoft Way 
Redmond, WA 98052-6399 
 
Tel 206 936 6348 
Fax 206 93MSFAX 
 
MICROSOFT 
 
July 21, 1993 
 
Mr. Jim Ticknor 
Zeos Innternational, LTD 
1301 Industrial Blvd. 
Minneapolis. NM 55413 
 
RE: Side Letter to the Zeos and Microsoft License Agreement,
dated June 1, 1990, Contract No. 
4934-0130 ("Agreement"). 
 
 
Dear Jim: 
 
The purpose of this letter is to allow Zeos to fulfill the
request from Cirrus Diagnostics Inc. for MS-DOS
5.0 on computer system shipped to them with MS-DOS 6 and
Enhanced Tools. The following terms will
apply: 
 
1. The number of copies of MS-DOS 5.0 fulfilled may not be
greater than the number of computer
systems that Zeos has sold to Cirrus Diagnostics with MS-DOS
6 and Enhanced Tools. 
 
2. The fulfillment must be completed by September 30, 1993.
 
 
3. Product shall be offered, at "no charge" except that
COMPANY may charge its reasonable COGs,
shipping, handling and postage fees. 
 
Please call if you have any questions. 
 
Sincerely, 
 
[signature] 
Carl Sittig 
OEM Account Manager 
 
MS 0040064 
CONFIDENTIAL 
 
Microsoft is an equal opertunity employer.

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<html>
<head>
<title>Comes v. Microsoft - Plaintiff's Exhibit 7383</title>
</head>
<body>

[Ed: Sequence of Presentation slides. 
Exhibit stamped as follows: 
Plaintiff's Exhibit 
7384
Comes v. Microsoft]

Java Runtime 
Project Review

Russ Arun 
Charles Fitzgerald 
Kory Srock 
Mike Toutonghi

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048402 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

1

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048402 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

Delivery Vehicles

<ul>
<li>IE4/Memphis</li>
<li>SDK for Java 2.0/Inet SDK</li>
<li>Mac IE (RTM Q4)</li>
<li>IIS/NT5 (RTM 10/15/97)</li>
<li>VJ98 (RTM 2/28/98)</li>

</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048403 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

2

Key Features

<ul>
<li>Continued performance leadership</li>
<li>New Garbage Collector</li>
<li>ActiveX-Beans integration</li>
<li>Capabilities-based security model</li>
<li>Package management</li>
<li>Debugging/profiling support</li>
<li>Application Foundation Classes</li>
<lI>DirectX3 and Direct Animation Java wrappers</li>
<li>Internationalization</li<
<li>MCF</li>
<li>Win32 DLL calling</li>
<li>JDK 1.1 support</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048404 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

3

New Features in JDK 1.1

<ul>
<li>Object serialization</li>
<li>Reflection</li>
<li>Java Beans</li>
<li>Internationalization</li>
<li>Security</li>
<li>JAR</li>
<li>JDBC</li>
<li>AWT, IO, Net and Math enhancements</li>
<li>Inner classes</li>
<li>RMI - NOT SUPPORTED</li>
<li>JNI - NOT SUPPORTED</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048405 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

4

Schedule - Beta 2

<ul>
<li>Week of May 26 - Code Complete/Bug Bash</li>
<li>Week of June 2 - Begin restricted checkins; start daily IE4
drops</li>
<li>Week of June 9 - More restricted checkins; end with less than 20 P1
bugs</li>
<li>Week of June 16 - Steady state of ZERO P1 bugs; fix shipstoppers
only</li>
<li>Week of June 23 - Build release candidates
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048406 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

5

Schedule - RTW

<ul>
<li>August 22</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048407 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

6

Post Beta 2 Work
Items

<ul>
<li><MIKE></li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048408 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

7

Post IE4 Work Items

<ul>
<li>IIS requirements???</li>
<li>VJ98 requirements?</li>
<li>AFC Enterprise Libraries</li>
<li>Disco</li>
<li>Native code compilation<li>
<li>Support UNIX ports<li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048409 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

8

Bugs <KORY>

<ul>
<li>Bugs stats</li>
<li>Test results</li>
<li>Bugs/developer</li>
<li>Incoming bug rate</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048410 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

9

Test Strategy

<ul>
<li>Comprehensive BVTs</li>
<li>Applet Compatibility</li>
<li>JCK</li>
<li>SDK</li>
<li>Class Library<ul>
<li>AFC</li>
<li>Disco</li>
<li>other</li>
<li>VM<ul>
<li>Package management</li>
<li>Security</li>
<li>COM</li>
<li>ActiveX/Beans</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Stress</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048411 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

10

Testing Synchronization

<ul>
<li>IE4 - subset BVTs, work with Trident on applet test team</li>
<li>VJ98 - debug, VM, server side</li>
<li>Win CE - use our test suites</li>
<li>DirectX - run their self-host tests</li>
<li>IIS - run their server side suites</li>
<li>Trident in Java - use some of our tests</li>
<li>UW - security and verifier testing</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048412 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

11

Release Criteria - Beta 2

<ul>
<li><Kory></li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048413 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

12

Footprint

<ul>
<li>Working set</li>
<li>Download size</li>
<li>DLL count</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048414 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

13

Risks

<ul>
<li>AFC<ul>
<li>Conflicting goals of performance, cross platform, great Win32
support</li>
<li>JDK 1.02 support</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Security/package management testing</li>
<li>Native code compilation</li>
<li>Opportunity: party on Beans</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048415 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

14

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048416 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

AFC Performance

[Ed: AwtMark presented as barchart of Millisections (from 0 to 140000)
against VM (* indicates some private components) for
JDK 1.1, VM2057.1, VM2109, VM2133, VM2135, VM2137, VM2138, VM2139,
VM2140, VM2140*, VM2144.]

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048416 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

15

Strategy

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048417 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

16

What is Java?

<ul>
<li>Variety of technologies<ul>
<li>Language, virtual machine</li>
<li>Class libraries (APIs)</li>
<li>JavaOS</li>
<li>Microprocessor, NCs, servers, etc.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Unprecedented market acceptance</li>
<li>Key benefits/tradeoffs<ul>
<li>Broad reach vs. performance/functionality/integration</li>
<li>Productivity</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Still immature</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048418 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

17

Microsoft's Commitment to Java 
100% Committed to World's Best Java

<ul>
<li>Programming language neutral</li>
<li>Market driven</li>
<li>Great business model fit</li>
<li>Many unmet needs</li>
<li>Making end-to-end investment</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048419 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

18

Microsoft's Java Strategy 
Best Way to Develop and Run Java Applications

<ul>
<li>World class technology<ul>
<li>Best development tool support</li>
<li>Best runtime (virtual machine)</li>
<li>Best component support</li>
<li>Best class libraries</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Make developers successful<ul>
<li>Choice - Write both cross platform and full-fledged Windows
applications in Java</li>
<li>Fully exploit customer software and hardware investments</li>
<li>Provide a business model</li>
</ul>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048420 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

19

Range of Developer Choices

[Ed: Figure consisting of darker ball within an lighter ball
truncated at bottom with words 'OS-Exploitive Java' underneath,
with arrow coming out of outer ball to the right, labelled
'Functionality/Performance/Integration']

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048421 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

20

[Ed: shows bottom segment of ball chopped off previous slide
only.]

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048422 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

21

Microsoft Java Investments

[Ed: Graphic on original slide - content of boxes described
below.]

<ul>
<li>Class Libraries<ul>
<li>[Ed: Black bar spanning all operating systems]</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Virtual Machine<ul>
<li>[Ed: Microsoft VM above all operating systems except 'Other
OS']</li>
<li>Operating System<ul>
<li>Win32</li>
<li>MacOS</li>
<li>Windows 3.1</li>
<li>UNIX</li>
<li>Windows CE</li>
<li>Other OS</li>
</ul></li>
</li>
</ul>

[Ed: in other words, the figure indicates that 'Microsoft VM'
would be running on Win32, MacOS, Windows 3.1, UNIX, Windows CE,
but that 'Other VM' would be running on 'Other OS'.]

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048423 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

22

[Ed: bottom of figure chopped from previous page.]

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048424 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

23

IE 3.0 Virtual Machine

<ul>
<li>Official Win32 Reference Implementation</li>
<li>Fastest, safest, most scalable, most reliable, most
functional</li>
<li>Fully compatible</li>
<li>Critically acclaimed by press and developers</li>
<li>Microsoft is largest provider of Java today<ul>
<li> Win 95 OSR2, IIS, IE
</ul></li>
<li>Free ISV redistribution via SDK</li>
<li>Focused on pragmatic innovation</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048425 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

24

Win32 Virtual Machine Reviews</li>

“Overall, Microsoft's Java environment
is more stable and far faster than
Netscape's.” 
     -- PC Magazine Online

“The most striking result is that Internet Explorer 3.0
is the fastest Java environment currently available:
Netscape Navigator 3.0 is consistently slower than
Internet Explorer, often significantly so.” 
     -- PC Week

“IE 3.0 is up to 15 percent faster than
Navigator
for compute-intensive applets. And even on pages where a JIT
compiler provides almost no benefits (simple Java applets such as
animations and tickers), IE 3.0 still runs Java
Faster.” 
“Internet Explorer runs Java
better...” 
     -- CNET

CaffeineMark benchmarks 
     -- http://www.webfayre.com

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048426 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

25

Competitive Situation - Netscape

<ul>
<li>Early leader on Java</li>
<li>Falling behind</li>
<li>Abandoning platform ambitions</li>
<li>Diverging from Sun on security</li>
<li>Missing Beans support in Nav4</li>
<li>Tension with Sun but will unite against Microsoft if
pushed</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048427 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

26

Competitive Situation - Sun

<ul>
<li>Java is not Microsoft's enemy, Sun is</li>
<li>Capture the API, swap out Windows underneath</li>
<li>Sun is doing Java equivalent of every Win32 API</li>
<li>Revenue model challenged</li>
<li>Repeating UNIX strategy; claim open standard, be the
leading implementation</li>
<li>Battle is for the Win32 implementation of Java</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048428 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

27

Strategic Challenges

<ul>
<li>How to support the language but not the platform</li>
<li>Kill 100% Pure Java</li>
<li>Burst the bubble without being the bully</li>
<li>Enlist allies</li>
<li>Stop standardization scam</li>
<li>JavaSoft relationship</li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048429 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

28

Strategic Challenges - APIs

<ul>
<li>Must separate language/VM/class libraries</li>
<li>Need API story<ul>
<li>Hard to call Win32 from Java today</li>
<li>Can't compete with Sun in Java-only APIs</li>
<li>COM3 APIs are a ways off</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048430 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

29

Backup Slides

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048431 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

30

[Ed: large table of technical information]

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048432 ATTORNEYS ONLY.]

31

[Ed: seems to be the bottom of the table on the previous
page.]

[Ed: Stamped CONFIDENTIAL MS0048433 ATTORNEYS ONLY]

32

</body>
</html>

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