From: Richard Fade
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 1996 9:41 AM
To: Desktop Applications Div Full Time Employees
Cc: Brad Silverberg; Paul Maritz; Natalie Yount; Cathy Turner
Subject: Desktop Applications Future
To: Desktop Applications Division
From: Richard Fade and Jon DeVaan
Subject:Desktop Applications Division Goals and Organization
".. The Internet has produced innovations and promises that are
gathering huge momentum and it is certain that over the next few years
we will see a dramatic change in our industry’s landscape ..
..
Internet - Nothing has more profoundly changed our business, customers,
and industry than the Internet, not even the graphical user interface.
How the internet impacts personal productivity applications and software
is yet to be seen. but Microsoft and Office must lead the way. Whether
this means a new class of application, architectural features, or new
components to the Office product, we must aggressively provide an answer
to this vexing question.
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02588.pdf
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Considering that MS has had an Internet strategy since at least 1996,
how was it that Google it is google who go their first and MS response
is to duplicate Google and integrate search into the applications.
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court documents in the case of Comes v. Microsoft.
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