Summary: Steven Sinofsky admits disk footprint problems (bloat) in an E-mail to Bill Gates

Noteworthy among the bunch of newly-transcribed E-mails is the following (Comes vs. Microsoft Exhibit PXE 6326_C):

From: Steven Sinofsky Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 11:24 PM To: Bill Gates Cc: Andrew Kwatinetz; Jon De Vaan; Bob Muglia (Exchange); Paul Maritz Subject: RE: Office size

Message Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged

Disk footprint is a huge huge issue for us (no pun intended) and has been very painful. I will send a pie chart tomorrow based on the latest build. We presented the data below in our demo-checkpoint in April so it is a little out of date but gives you a rough idea:

Category File Size Count of Files Component 11,614,417 66 Content 18,759,426 759 Data 18,163,040 111 Extra Help 1,123,908 33 Fonts 4,568,848 33 IE 37,639,405 238 Import 13,364,697 82 Mapi 10,782,926 64 Office 130,253,026 471 OS 14,786,198 85 VBA 19,651,081 48

Grand Total 280,706,972 1,990

Plaintiff's Exhibit 6326_C Comes v. Microsoft

MS/CR 0004126 CONFIDENTIAL

So even Microsoft knows and admits that Windows has a weight problem. While it may be obvious, paper record is handy to have because Microsoft occasionally denies it. ⬆