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To: rhet0ric who wrote (13407)	5/11/1998 5:47:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

Here's another theory about Carbon: In Gil's book, Gil claims that he wanted to get Microsoft's support for Rhapsody, i.e. he wanted them to port Office. And he made this a condition of making IE the default browser. And, Gil says, Steve caved on this point, which is what made the deal possible. But get this: Jobs new as early as last summer that Carbon was possible. So all he needed was to get Microsoft to agree to upgrade Office for MacOS. Since MacOS would ultimately converge with Rhapsody, Microsoft would unwittingly be legally committed to porting Office to Rhapsody. To make sure nothing went wrong, Jobs kept Carbon under wraps, waiting for Office to ship. Now that it has, and Microsoft is committed, he has unveiled Carbon. There's nothing Bill can do now, short of breaking his contract, to prevent Office from running on Apple's new killer OS. If Office runs on it, everything else will fall into place. rhet0ric

To: rhet0ric who wrote (13407)	5/11/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: Sam Scrutchins	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

I don't know. The strange thing about it is the way they presented it. It seems like they decided that they needed to sell Mac developers on the Carbon concept, and felt that they should underplay Rhapsody. And perhaps they don't want to alert the Wintel camp that the Mac invasion is imminent. rhet0ric, I'm missing something here. If Rhapsody is becoming MacOS, then why can't the code technology that allows the Red Box to sit on top of MacOS work? Indeed, is MacOS simply a new Rhapsody relying on MAC x.x code in lieu of new Rhapsody code for the baseline system. Could not developers now write for the MacOS like Apple wanted them to right for Rhapsody, so that all MacOS-written applications would also run in the Intel arena? Just wondering? Sam