[TheoCryst]

Admitted Exhibits

Dozens of "confidential" internal Microsoft emails have been posted online as part of the ongoing legal dispute that is Comes et al. v. Microsoft Corp. One of my personal favorites:

http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011107/PX_2768.pdf
"Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java language."
"Don't care about cross platform in future - pretense or otherwise."

[olePigeon]

Was reading that, and it's scary. At least we know how they developed .Net ... as if it was any secret.

[Jim_MDP]

Read just one (from '96) and I want to puke a little. Check the last para...

http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX0_5780.pdf

[analogika]

The more interesting part:
"Apple is just realizing that what we are doing with Active Desktop and making the page and link metaphor central is critical to having a decent OS."



The last paragraph you refer to just means "we're not offering anything we aren't doing anyway, already."