Tevie told the truth - MSFT also held "Office" club over AAPL
DOJ testimony reveals that in addition to "knifing AAPL's QUICKTIME baby" , MSFT was ready to bludgeon AAPL into submission :
" Further evidence of deterioration of relations between Apple and Microsoft emerged in court yesterday, as Paul Maritz was confronted with a February 1998 email saying that "MacOffice is the perfect club to use on them [Apple]".
But it get worse for AAPL . AAPL now with a dead QT baby , an MSFT Office clubbed-in head , must also promote MSFT's IE :
"The other part of Bradford's proposed deal, which is the bit the club relates to, covers IE and runs as follows. He will propose Apple make IE its standard browser, and offers "source licence to ISL in exchange for IE as exclusive browser bundled with MacOS (Nav on secondary media.)"
That is, cut a deal that moves Navigator further out of the box. Microsoft will also offer "source licence of the IE HTRML Control and consulting support".
Waldman responds: "Sounds like we give them the HTML control for nothing except making IE the 'standard browser for Apple?' I think they should be doing this anyway... and if they don't do it then we can use Office as a club. So I guess I'm saying that I don't think we should give them the HTML control unless they make IE the exclusive browser (and not need to bargain with ISL."
NOTE: On 1/26/99 MSFT EX VP Paul Maritz , in sworn DOJ testimony , confirmed there was a meeting about AAPL and Ofice , but denied there ever were with-holding threats .
Jim K |
