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

[Erick Andrews]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:31:34 +0200, Case Roole wrote:

>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


Yes.  This is Gates' reality.

-- 
Erick Andrews