From: Brad Chase
Sent: Friday, MAy 15, 1998 3:57 PM
To Walt Massberg (E-mail); Bill Gates
Cc: Brad Chase
Subject: Windows 98
.. if oems can boot up into an alternative shell then what is Windows?
we market and invest significant R&O into Windows and if anyone can
change its initial UI then that impacts peoples understanding of
windows. in addition it sets up a situation where our competitors can
try to replace Windows with their own UI and aps. again an oem could
ship these UIs and APIs today but it is a lot to ask us to have the
users first boot and experience with Windows be, not Windows but a
competitive shell or OS.
take the wsj for example. you ship via delivery people, they are your
oems. you have dominant share of the daily news market. what if the
delivery people could substitute someone's else's front page for your
own and further more what if it was not even clear that it wasn't the wsj?
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_2905.pdf
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