From: Steven Sinofsky
To: Bill Gates:
Subject: Re: Marginal cost for Mac
Date: Friday, January 28, 1994 7:23 PM
For all this we should be analysing the Mac system as it evolves and improves
and innovating what makes sense. Whenever we do this, we should make sure it
gets expressed in both the Mac and Windows through WLM. This sort of makes our
Windows APIs on the Mac the union of the features and gives more features to
windows. This is very hard and should only be a goal, not a requirement.
..
With Wings, I think, optimistically, there is a real chance to undermine the
Mac. Features that are Mac-specific could lose a lot of luster if they don't
come from Wings and Wings is the way all the smaller commercial mac programs
get writer.
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From: Bill Gates
To: Steven Sinofsky
Subject: Re: Marginal cost for Mac
Date: Friday, January 28, 1994 4:13 PM
I am still trying to figure out how we can get lots of ISVs to use Wings
without actually strengthening Mac against Windows by making it a nice Windows
clone and letting people like LOTUS easily attack us.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02002.pdf
translation: copy the best features of the Mac into the Windows API. Provide
them on both platforms but don't let the Mac version look too nice.
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court documents in the case of Comes v. Microsoft.
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