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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19996)	6/12/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Gates says browser plan began before Netscape zdnet.com Again, of course. Esteemed ilk sister Mary Jo Foley takes on that Economist article by Bill. The revisionist history, floated back in October and resurfacing from time to time, again draws some skepticism. I'm sure it will be fully and correctly explained in the next edition of Encarta, along with how war is peace, ignorance is strength, and Windows is open. In the Economist story, Gates details a Dec. 7, 1993, message from Microsoft Executive Vice President Steve Ballmer that says the company " 'could really help popularise' the forthcoming Windows 95 if the operating system could be positioned as 'the greatest front end to the Internet.' " Gates also cites a subsequent December 1993 message from an unnamed Microsoft technologist arguing for Microsoft to provide Internet facilities as part of its operating systems. What Gates doesn't mention, however, is that he acknowledged during Microsoft's "Pearl Harbor" Internet Strategy Day in December 1995 that, while he had been told by numerous strategists of the importance of the Internet to Microsoft, he had pooh-poohed their claims. But what does what he said then count? Dec. 7, 1995, a day that will live in infamy. It will be erased in the next edition of Encarta too. In The Economist article, Gates also attributes to primarily "relatively junior staffers" various e-mails that the U.S. Department of Justice has used to bring its latest antitrust charges against the Redmond, Wash., company. However, most of the e-mails the DOJ has made public are from Microsoft's top vice presidents, including Paul Maritz and Jim Allchin. Love that Paul Maritz, he of "cut off their air supply" fame. Of course, everybody is relatively junior to Bill, except when revisionist history needs to be constructed. Cheers, Dan.