__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:26 \__
> - Original Message -
> From: Bill Gates
> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 1999 4:56 PM
> To: Joachim Kempin
> Cc: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Bill Neukom (LCA); Steven Sinofsky; Steve
> Ballmer Subject: Gateway
>
> Attorney client privileged
>
> I an reading about the Gateway adoption of the Corel software. I am
> interested to understand what this means better and how it relates to
> any contracts we have with them.
So, they already have a chokehold on the OEMs when it comes to operation
system. Now, just as they did with Netscape/IE, they wish to extend the
OEM's obligation to shut our rivals whose products lie at a different level.
Why not go further? Microsoft could start producing hardware, hand it over
to the OEM (salesman) and eliminate the OEMs altogether. It would be like
the old IBMs, or today's Macs. One size (and company) fits all. No choice,
no escape (lockins/de facto standards with patents and hidden proprietary
'extensions').
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