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To: Bearded One who wrote (22515)	2/1/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Windows Civil War: How Microsoft Wound Up In a Civil War Over Windows interactive.wsj.com There are some great lines in this article: Two months before the March meeting, one of Mr. Silverberg's top lieutenants, Ben Slivka, proposed the new strategy in a presentation titled "Java Is Our Destiny." The group believed the only way for Microsoft to survive was to execute what one team member called "a graceful exit plan" from Windows. * * * It fell to Mr. Slivka, as the doves' head cheerleader, to present his team's progress report at the March meeting. Showing up in his usual Hawaiian shirt and shorts, he clicked up the first slide. There wasn't any reference in it to Windows. Mr. Gates pounced. "There's nothing about that slide I like," he snapped, according to several executives' accounts of the meeting. Mr. Slivka struggled to recoup, but Mr. Gates soon erupted. "Why don't you just give up your options and join the Peace Corps?" Mr. Gates is said to have thundered. "Hasn't anybody here ever heard of Windows? Windows is what this company is about!" Microsoft declined to make Mr. Gates available for comment for this article.