[huskerlug] Microsoft Busted? And VISTA a poor copy of OS X?
- From: GreyGeek <jkreps@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: HuskerLug <huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:00:39 -0600
What is interesting is the comments of the Microsoft "Evangelist" after
theysaw the Apple Mac Tiger OS:
“it is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today,”
It leaves LITTLE DOUBT that VISTA is merely a poor copy of Apple's OS X,
evenin the eyes of Microsoft employees and management. It also reveals
Microsoft's phony merger talks in order to reduce Novell's ability to
integrate DRI at an opportunistic time. It is easier to compete and "win"
when you cheat and your opponents follow ethical behavior.
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GreyGeek
Media Update
RE: IOWA COURT CASE
Comes vs. Microsoft, Inc.
January 22, 2007
Contact: Eileen Wixted 515-240-6115
Jim Hibbs 515-201-9004
Coverage Notes: Office 515-226-0818
1. Plaintiffs officially notify the U.S. Department of
Justice and the Iowa Attorney General of Microsoft’s noncompliance with the
2002 Final Judgment in United States v. Microsoft.
2. Exhibit of interest: PX7278 shows that Vista
evangelistsat Microsoft raved about Apple’s Mac Tiger in 2004.
3. Former General Counsel for software company Novell
testifies about Microsoft’s anticompetitive conduct against Novell and DR
DOS.
WEB AND BROADCAST
1. Plaintiffs notify the Department of Justice and Iowa
Attorney General Tom Miller of Microsoft’s non-compliance with the 2002
Final Judgment in United States v. Microsoft.
Today, Roxanne Conlin, co-lead counsel for the Plaintiffs in
Comes v. Microsoft, sent a letter to Thomas Barnett of the United States
Department of Justice and Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, informing them
that the Comes Plaintiffs have obtained confidential discovery materials
fromMicrosoft showing that Microsoft is not complying with, and is
circumventing, its disclosure obligations under the 2002 Final Judgment
entered by the federal court in United States v. Microsoft.
The 2002 Final Judgment requires Microsoft to fully disclose
applications programming interfaces (“APIs”) and related documentation used
by Microsoft. An expert retained by Plaintiffs analyzed source code and
othermaterials produced by Microsoft in the Comes matter, and has concluded
that a large number of Windows APIs used by Microsoft middleware remain
undocumented. Because of the important public policy considerations
associated with Microsoft’s obligations under the 2002 Final Judgment,
Plaintiffs received permission from the Polk County District Court to
discussthe matter with appropriate authorities.
2. Rave reviews of Apple’s Mac Tiger by Vista evangelists
in 2004 were “hard to take,” according to Microsoft’s Jim Allchin.
NOTE LANGUAGE
A series of e-mail messages from June 2004 show that
“evangelists” for Microsoft’s Vista operating system and others at Microsoft
secretly conceded the superiority of Apple’s Mac Tiger operating system. In
one email, Microsoft “evangelist” Lenn Pryor raved about the functionality
ofMac Tiger, which he called “f***ing amazing.” Pryor stated, “it is like I
just got a free pass to Longhorn land today,” a reference to the code name
for Microsoft’s Vista, which would not be released for another two and half
years. After another Microsoft employee remarked, “interesting reaction from
one of our LH [i.e. Longhorn] evangelists,” Jim Allchin, Product Manager for
Vista, responded, “I know. It is hard to take.” See PX7278 at
www.iowaconsumercase.com[1] .
3. Former General Counsel for software company Novell testifies
about Microsoft’s anticompetitive conduct against Novell and DR DOS.
David Bradford, former General Counsel for software company Novell,
took the stand today to testify about Microsoft’s anticompetitive conduct
against Novell and DR DOS.
Bradford testified that Bill Gates tried to initiate merger talks
between Microsoft and Novell after Novell announced it was merging with
Digital Research, Inc. (“DRI”). Bradford testified that Microsoft made it a
condition of merger talks that Novell keep its newly-acquired operating
systems competitor at arm’s length while the merger talks continued, and
thendragged the talks out for several months. Bradford said as a result, the
first critical months after the merger with DRI were wasted. Novell stopped
the negotiations when Microsoft acquired a different company without notice
to Novell. In retrospect, Bradford said Novell came to believe that the
talkswith Microsoft were a mistake and that Microsoft sought the talks only
to prevent Novell from fully integrating DRI.
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1 http://www.iowaconsumercase.com
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