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[brewin]

Recently, several hundred confidential Microsoft documents were made public by the Iowa Consumer Case. I thought I'd skim through them and post the interesting ones.

The funniest document I've found so far is a conversation between several high-ups at MS about how Apple's OS X Tiger is so much better than their own Longhorn. One Longhorn developer calls it "f*cking amazing" and then other developers beg him for the DVD...

http://www.iowaconsu...000/PX07278.pdf

And then Jim Allchin emails Bill Gates about how he would run OS X if he wasn't the head of Microsoft's OS division...

http://www.iowaconsu...7/PLEX_7264.pdf

Here's another email from Allchin explaining how worried he is about losing to Linux...

http://www.iowaconsu...000/PX07168.pdf

Yet another email from Allchin to Bill Gates describing in detail how to effectively monopolize the industry. It seems to me that Gates is a little worried about doing this...

http://www.iowaconsu...000/PX07142.pdf

Finally, here's a timetable for Longhorn and Office as of Feb. 2, 2002. The "optimistic case" for their release is Aug. 2004. The "less optimistic case" is Dec. 2004...

http://www.iowaconsu...000/PX07069.pdf


I've only looked at about half of the PDFs, but there you go.

[Linoman]

Read through all of these PDF's and all I can say is that they are classic.

[brewin]

Linoman, on Feb 4 2007, 04:22 AM, said:

Read through all of these PDF's and all I can say is that they are classic.

That they are.

It's funny to read Allchin's emails. When Longhorn was first being discussed (circa 2001), he seems like a fairly level-headed guy. As the years go by and Longhorn still isn't finished, his emails get more and more maniacal until they finally turn depressive. It's no wonder he resigned the day Vista was launched...