From: Jim Allchin (exchange)
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 1997 5:17 PM
To: Bill Gates
Cc: Paul Maritz
Subject: "Losing a Franchise - The Microsoft Windows Story" (a new
harvard Case study)
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1. Why are we doing so many things cross-platform? Are there more Macs,
OS/2 or Unix clients today as a % or less than a year ago .. I consider
this cross-platform issue a disease within Microsoft .. We should be
asking for specific innovations to restrict to Windows ..
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I see the same pattern here as with Novell a few years ago. Some people
believed we should drop our work in TCP/IP and only do IPX/SPX work. It
took significant effort in order to convince the PSD team to accept TCP
for Windows 95. Why? Because we were in copy mode of Novell. We are
doing it again. There is a time for this clone strategy, but the better
long term approach is always to attack from a more strategic perspective.
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2658.pdf
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