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Re: cancel Mac Office 97 will immediately harm Apple ..

  • Subject: Re: cancel Mac Office 97 will immediately harm Apple ..
  • From: Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:05:34 +0000
  • In-reply-to: <3224858.vMBZjphRul@schestowitz.com>
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

Good to see that this new host has already won some
> exposure. Do you happen to know if it's complete?

Don't know, but their are a number of parties creating archives and are looking for space.

http://edge-op.org/iowa/README.txt

http://www.sonic.net/~undoc/comes_v_microsoft/

http://kafka.freeshell.org/iowaconsumercase.org_archive/

'PX9094 is another 1997 string of internal Microsoft emails discussing dangerous security flaws in ActiveX controls for Internet Explorer 3xx, which needed to be fixed or risk “major embarrassment.” After internally discussing various options, Microsoft decided not to fix the problem (which would have delayed the launch of Internet Explorer 4.0) but to “simply say a prayer over this one'

'PX9096 is yet another string of internal Microsoft emails from around the same time, also discussing security issues with ActiveX and the need to keep quiet about those vulnerabilities. One email to Bill Gates states:

“if McNeally or the press get a hold of this, ActiveX is dead.”

”McNeally” is a reference to Scott McNeally, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, a rival company. Another email in the string observes:

“This is a really grim situation'

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