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unpublished Office '96 internal shell extensions ..

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From: Vrad Silverberg
To: Tom Evslin; Bill Gates
Cc: Russ Siegelman; Jim Allchin; (jimall); Paul Maritz (paulms)
Subject: Monday, October 03 1994 6:42 PM

I will jump in - yes we have to take them out of marvel and capone too. There no one in the world outside of Microsoft who will buy the argument that they are "part of Chicago" so get the interfaces while others don't. This is an impossible sale.

From: Tom Evslin
To: Bill Gates
Cc: Brad Silverberg; Russ Siegelman; Jim Allchin; (jimall); Paul Maritz (paulma)
Subject: RE: Shell plans - iShellBrowser
Date: Monday, October 03, 1994 6:04 PM

I understand the decision to publish the interfaces so son't argue with that.

Is it also necessary, hower, to prohibit Capone and Marvel from using them? These are part of the Chicago shell (or can be positioned that way) so is there a reason why they can't be use unpublished interfaces for "internal" extensions of the shell.

From: Bill Gates
To: billbl; bobmu; bradsi; bradstr; brainmac; chrisg; chrisp; darrylr; doughe; erikgav; jimail; joab; kurte; leifp; mikako; paulms; russ3; satonal steveyn; tomev
Cc: brianf
Subject: Shell plans - iShellBrowser
Date: Monday, October 03, 1994 5:18 PM

Its time for a decision on iShellBrowser ..

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It is hard to know how much actual market benefit iShellBrowser integration would bring. I believe Chicago will be very successful either way. Unfortunately I don't think integration will have a marked affect in terms of Capone competing with cc:Mail, so that battle wil have to be won on other grounds, This is not to say that there was anything wrong with the extensions - on the contrary they are a very nice piece of work.

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I have decided that we should not publish these extensions. We should wait until we have a way to do a high level of integration that will be harder for likee of Notes, Wordperfect to achieve, and which will give Office a real advantage. This means that Capone and Marvel can still live in the top level of the Explorer namespace, but wil run separately ..

Having the Office really think through the information intensive scenarios, and be a demanding client of systems is absolutely critical to our future success. We can't compete with Lotus and Wordperfect/Novell without this. Our goal is to have Office '96 sell better because of the shell integration work, and to have the Ren/Office effort yield technology that can be an integral part of the shell in Windows 97 ..

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5673.pdf

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