From: Bill Gates
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1989 9:44 AM
To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
Cc: Paul Mariz
Subject: Office rendering
One thing we have got to change is our strategy — allowing Office documents
to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the most
destructive things we could do to the company.
We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
to to destroy Windows.
http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
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