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To: Brad Chase, Jim Allchin
Cc: Adam Taylor, Yusaf Mehdi, Windows Marketing, IF. Marketing
From: Keith White, Windows Org lVlktg. Team
RE: Windows Organizational Marketing 2H FY98 Plan
Executive Summary
The Windows Org marketing team has spent the past 6 months fighting the
TCO battle, addressing the threat of the NC, executing a number of
Windows sustain marketing programs, as well as begun the preparation for
the launch of Windows 98 and Beta 2 of NTWS.
Some of the highlights include:
* We have been closely monitoring, attacking, and winning NC threatened
accounts
* successfully lobbied and changed the Gartner Group TCO model to show
Windows as providing the lowest overall TCO
* Developed and shipped the Windows 95 Zero Administration Kit
* Wrote and shipped the beta version of the Windows 98 Resource Kit
* Successfully trained our field sales force and channel on the benefits
of Windows" 98 in corporations
* Executed on a number of high level keynotes and tradeshows, including
a massive PDC and Comdex
* Executed an informative Banner’s & Bridges exercise to find and
address key issues with NTW becoming the default OS in organizations
* Developed and began implementing the corporate plans for Windows 98
and NTW5
* Developed corporate focused demonstrations of Win98 and NTW5
* Presented over 80% of the desktop focused EBCs, Win98, and MESs
Even witht this Work, organizations are still in a state of confusion on
the desktop. They have the issue of running multiple versions of Windows
(Win95 Gold, SP1, and OSR1, 2, or 2.5, and NTW4, SP1, 2, or 3) in their
environment. There is still a significant amount of Win16 (~35% of the
installed base), the Year 2000 issue is taking away focus and diverting
resources away from evaluating new OSs, and Windows is still expensive
to deploy and support. Corporations see NTW5 as the silver bullet, and
many are planning on bypassing Windows 98 in order to deploy NTW5,
however many of the TCO benefits are tied to NT Server 5.0, which could
expand the evaluation cycle as well.
Given the above situation our 4 main objectives for 2H FY98 will be to:
1. Increase Win32 penetration in corporates to 65% in FY98 by focusing
on NTW4 sustain activities. With the huge mind-share NT3 is demanding,
it is critical we continue to sell today’s products in order to increase
Wn32 penetration. Along with Billsha’s OEM team, we are implementing a
number of NTW 4.0 sustain activities including an "NTW Means Business"
campaign to drive customers to purchase NTW pre-installed on new
systems. We are also demonstrating customer momentum and standardization
with case studies at high profile events such as the MMS/Intel
Workstation Leadership Forum, and working with the OEM team to promote
the advances NTW has made in driver, mobile, and application support.
2. Deliver a worldwide launch of Win98 to corporates in FY98, by
delivering a core set of evaluation and migration tools. Though NTW is
the recommended product for organizations, we are positioning Windows 98
to corporates as "A smart upgrade if you can’t move to NTW’. We are
executing on a corporate and partner-driven Rapid Deployment Program in
order to understand deployment issues and generate PR references. We are
also developing tools such as a Deployment Guide and a Zero
Administration Kit for Windows 98, as well as working with analysts to
demonstrate the support and deployment cost savings realized with Win98.
3. Prepare our field, channel, and customers for a worldwide launch of
NTW5 in FY99. As Billg has stated that Microsoft is "betting the company
on Windows NT5", we are focusing the majority of our efforts on ensuring
we generate early wide scale evaluation of Windows NT 5.0 via the
Windows NT 5.0 Corporate Preview Program. We’ll gain knowledge of
deployment issues and process from the Rapid Deployment Program, build
tools such as the Evaluation and Deployment Guide, and educate our
partners and customers on how to deploy via a series of Windows
Technical Workshops and Deployment Conferences. At the same dine we are
synching with the NT Server, Office 9, and the IE 5.0 teams to promote
"Platform 99" as the next generation business desktop.
4. Halt the NC from making any noise in FY98. Though the NC has failed
to live up to its early threat of mass PC replacement, we are actively
tracking threatened accounts and monitoring and attacking the NC
constituents (IBM, Sun, Oracle) with high level TCO and Windows
messages. We are executing on a PR plan to expose the NC as "dead",
continuing to arm our field sales force with competitive analysis and
responses, and working with the Hydra and WBT OEM teams to build the
Windows value proposition for thin clients.
If we are successful with the above objectives, we will have made
significant progress in migrating the majority of corporate desk-tops to
32-bit Windows, adequately prepared the marketplace to shift to NTW, and
stopped our chief competitor, the NC, from making any inroads. The
remainder of this document will provide greater detail on the core
objectives, including budget, timeline, and roles and responsibilities.
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4) NC Attack Plan-"The NC is Dead"
Though we have made great strides to ensure the NC does not gain
footholds in any of our accounts, we can expect another big push from
IBM and Sun in the 2nd half. IBM is already pushing their NetStations
hard into accounts, and Sun is planning on releasing the Java Stations
in the first half of CY98. Our focus will be to continue to expose the
issues with the NC idea, while communicating the benefits of Windows and
our thin client strategy with Hydra and the Windows-based Terminal.
We'll execute on the following programs to ensure the NC makes no
headway in the 2nd half of FY98:
* Expose the NC as Dead to the press and analyst: We will spend a
considerable amount of our time focused on educating the press about the
pitfalls of the NC in order to generate "the NC is Dead" press articles.
This will cumulate in a press and analyst tour in March, coinciding with
Internet World in LA. Prior to the tour, we will be delivering monthly
Windows TCO wins to the press, as well as NC trial/rejecter case
studies. We’ll leverage our NetPC and WBT OEM and Partner successes, and
utilize the web, onLine news banners, and other online delivery channels
to get this information to our customers.
* Arm our field and customers with tools and competitive information: In
order to keep the worldwide field sales force up to speed, we'll
continue to utilize the NCSQUAD alias as our core information mechanism,
and our NC Champs program in the US will be expanded internationally.
Starting in February, we’ll provide NC competitive reports on IBM
NetStation & Sun JavaStation including Technical Reviews, Market
Bulletins, Competitive Updates, and Presentations all on our
http://winmarketing/nc web site.
* Continue to monitor and track threatened accounts and NC standards
groups: We have done a good job to date on tracking and responding to
any NC threatened account worldwide, and we’ll keep this up over the
next six months. We’ll maintain a direct focus on tier 1 & ECU Strategic
customer threats. To help facilitate this worldwide, we are panning a
couple of tours to South East Asia and Europe in the March and April to
visit threatened accounts, educate subs & generate PR. We'll also
implement a monthly conference call series with NC Champs for
intelligence gathering & updates. We'll also continue to track and
attend meetings of NC related standards groups such as The Open Group’s
NCMG.
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02817.pdf
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analysis: Monitoring and attacking potential NetPC accounts, lobby
Gartner to fraudulently show Windows TCO as lower, feed the press fake
'the NC is dead' stories, spy on the Open Group.
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court documents in the case of Comes v. Microsoft.
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