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A couple more quotes from

Funny, Microsoft didn't penalize anyone for not using MS-DOS, or remark upon any such limitation. Indeed, the beta testers showed no hesitation in reporting that they were using DR-DOS... read the comments in this section, too many to quote:

Microsoft knew that NDA's weren't effective in keeping such information under wraps - indeed, they counted on it:

Ballmer: "the design preview has not leaked to the press are you surprised do you wish it would if so when"

and

"If you tell 50 independent software vendors something, you're going to find it's under a Non-Disclosure Agreement, the high, high, high, high, high, high probability is that that will be in the press the next week."

And Barrett testified that the beta preview that contained the AARD code was "a marketing tool to get the product into the hands of people making buying decisions".

They thought so:

"On the desktop, we have a strategic win today (monopoly). We must keep the desktop."

Presentation, Microsoft Executive Staff Retreat, May 10, 1990

-- Sincerely,

Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer." - J.R.R. Tolkien, on critics