Date: 21 Dec 1989 9:26 est
Via: vax
To: iwold; coconner, cyoung, emcnierney, bbriggh, bfrankston
Subject: (Forwarded) Microsoft Briefing
FYI. I do not yet have the copies of slides referred to.
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From: LDBVAX::DGILMOUR
Date: 19-DEC-1989 10:05:50
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To: LOBVAX::mfahey
Subject: Microsoft Briefing
Marty Fahey and I attended the Microsoft Systems review in Redmond on
Decembeer 15. It was an all-day session of 35mm slide presentations and
product demos. There were approximately 90 people in the room, 40 of
whom were from Microsoft.
About 25 ISVs were representated, including Aldus, Autodesk, Oracle,
wordperfect, AShton Tate, Microrim, Informix, and a number of smaller
companies who generally seemed to send their chief technical officer.
Copies of the slides were distributed and will be copied to this
distribution list. They contain significant technical detail about the
future directions of OS/2 and Windows. What follows are additional facts
raised in the discussion bit not necessarily reflected in the slides.
..
OS/2
* Ballmer repeated the "Official" positioning of OS/2 vs. Windows, based
on machine memory size. But during the course of the day it became clear
that Microsofot believes that OS/2 will appleal primarily to
"corporations making planned purchases" and for "new hardware", and
Windows will be the "transition to GUI" for many end users running
existing hardware.
* However, a demo of OS/2 2.0 made OS/2 look quite ipressive from th end
user's point of view -- really for the first time. The demo included
running:
- 1-2--3 2.01 with expanded memory
- DOS Wordperfect
- PM Excel
- Microsoft Word (CUI) with Borland Sidekick
- Microsoft Windows in a window, with the calender application running
inside that.
- Flight Simulator
Cut-and-paste was demonstrated from 1-2-3 to Wordperfect and then to Excel.
* OS/2 2.0 has a "Porthole" facility which will allow running of Windows
3.0 applications with 100% compatibility ..
..
Microsoft's Applications
Microsoft's own view is that the world will divide into Windows
applications and pure 32 bit OS/2 applications. UNIX will never be a
viable platform for volume packaged software because of a lack of a
binary standard distributed as a packaged product. Microsoft will use
the porthole facility to get its applications to PM, except for Excel,
which has been ported natively. It will then re-code all its
applications for the 32 bit version of OS/2.
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/5000/PX05082.pdf
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court documents in the case of Comes v Microsoft.
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