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November 09, 2005
Winer on MS leak
Winer on MS leak: I pulled this link through Memeorandum, and one line particularly caught me: "It's always frustrating to read these memos through the filters of mainstream reporters. I wanted to read the memo myself, but more important, I wanted my fellow bloggers to have a chance to read Gates' and Ozzie's words directly, without interpretation, and decide for themselves what they were saying, trying to figure out what they're thinking and form their own opinions on whether it makes sense." So that's what you wanted. What about what the creators of those words wanted? They didn't send those words to you, or to the New York Times -- the creator of that media sent it to their desired audience. Trafficking in purloined media of uncertain authenticity -- not good karma, that "might makes right" kind of approach. :( (I'm keeping alive the hypothesis that it's all a ploy, a stealth campaign by MS, and that Dave received the text from Ray Ozzie personally, but I think that's an unlikely scenario.)
Posted by John Dowdell at November 9, 2005 08:44 AM
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Whether this is a ploy or not, what I find very interesting here is that there isn't a word about Macromedia or Adobe. Google is pretty much their only competitor they mention by name.
Either Macromedia/Adobe are not on MS' radar (yet) or they chose to ignore them on purpose... Microsoft may keep Bruce Chizen awake at night but apparently Google is the only one software "giant" that bothers Ray Ozzie and Bill Gates. ;-)
Posted by: Stéphane Bergeron at November 9, 2005 10:06 AM
When you read the two "emails", it is pretty hard to avoid the conclusion that Microsoft leaked them on purpose. The style of the Gates "email" in particular is unrelentingly formal, very similar in voice to a standard press release.
The Ozzie piece, in its "Key Tenets" and "What's Different" sections, sets forth insights of value to any software developer. A lot more valuable than any of the news stories I read based on the memos, that's for sure! And it paints a picture of an organization that must be what the organization would like you to see. Especially considering that Microsoft actually DOES have a whole business area of trusted document server/reader systems. Or at least that was my impression. But maybe they don't use their own secure document serving technology for communications between top execs about their strategic corporate plans?
I think 'purloined' is not really the right word here.
Posted by: George Girton at November 9, 2005 02:18 PM
I believe microsoft leaked them on purpose as well. Thanks for posting hte links so we could read each of them ourselves.
Posted by: Steve at November 16, 2005 09:47 PM