[Am-info] gates memo trying to counteract palm?

[Case Roole]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Marty Leisner wrote:
> I've heard about a memo released a few weeks ago where Bill Gates
> wanted windows to be incompitable with palm (or something like that...
> maybe CE?)  
> 
> I haven't been able to find the memo text...
> 
> Can someone point me at it?

(Following info passed the list earlier on May 24th)

You can find some more info in an article by James Grimaldi for the Washington
Post at http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62187-2000May24.html

The juicy Gates quote is:
"We really need to demonstrate to people like Nokia why our PDA will connect to
Office in a better way than other PDAs even if that means changing how we do
flexible schema in Outlook and how we tie some of our audio and videoadvanced
work to only run on our PDAs"

Note the word "tie" and note that the audio and video stuff Gates talks of are
part of Windows.

-cjr