Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Mar 2007 22:33 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Documentary evidence that Microsoft considered abandoning Office for Mac in order to cause 'a great deal of harm' to Apple has emerged. An emailed memo from Microsoft-founder Bill Gates to then Mac Business Unit chief Ben Waldman dated June 1997 talks about morale in the Mac Office development camp. At that time Microsoft's senior management were considering dumping Mac support. The email complains at poor sales of Office, which it attributes to a lack of focus on making such sales among reps at that time.
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RE: How about reading the orignal document
by Deviate_X on Wed 7th Mar 2007 08:56
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I'm surprised that so few have actually read the document, it sound like gates was busy trying to promote mac support inside microsoft and get apple to be more constructive.
Its very obvious that gates/microsoft were not considering dumping office. And were all about ramping up support for office for the Mac.
Do the OSnews editors actually read what they post?
RE[2]: How about reading the orignal document
by Adam S on Wed 7th Mar 2007 14:01
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You should all read the original document here
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_6060....
It actually sounds pretty positive, not negative. It doesn't sound at all like they were trying to dump office to hurt Apple, in fact he said it was a good barganing tool in some discussions, but then later said that regardless of the outcome they should release Office anyway.