I think the reality was that a member of the board, Ilya Sutskever, had been increasingly at odds with his boss

Just called Adam and no response 🤬

I also want to use this tactically vs GOOG/AAPL and their device policies.

At some level Bing is the scoped ad supported version.

I’m not complacent and I’d rather this hadn’t happened, but we’ll be ok, more than OK.

I just want to make sure we are staying in the “ball” game here...

At some point, getting Nintendo would be a career moment and I honestly believe a good move for both companies

We have a better product than Sony does

we (Microsoft) are in a very unique position to be able to go spend Sony out of business

we are multiple years behind the competition in terms of ML scale.

Our strategy with mobile is just a hope, there is nothing that gives us insight that this will work.

Can I imagine that Apple can build a search engine to compete. Yes but it’s probably not the best way to differentiate our products.

We run the store, we collect the revenue

Apathy/antipathy at Apple towards MS

we cannot do that again

Steve copied our pitch almost word for word.

I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way.

I am REALLY counting on wm9.1 to fix this terrible experience. Apple is just so far ahead.

This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me

We were smoked.

However I think we need some plan to prove that even though Jobs has us a bit flat footed again we move quick

This site is so slow it is unusable.

The quality is giving us a bad name.

bill wasn’t excited about the Ul. he wonders if we can’t do something much sexier, feels microsoft is boring.

I am forcing Apple to do a lot of stuff they’d rather not do (using Office as leverage).

It seems a crime to have a lawsuit because of this when the law and the consumer benefits are so clear.

The Microsoft / Apple relationship seems to be progressing well.

I don’t make this mistake often - maybe 3 times a year. I woke up last night realizing what a bad piece of mail it was.

Steveb is panic’d that we are setting expectations too high on Windows 98.

I prefer to structure investing as a no-called-strikes game and just wait for the fat one

Our Board and CFO feel strongly that any visible Microsoft hedging in the short run is unacceptable to Apple.

Apple has taken each of these elements and made them totally beyond unreasonable.

I certainly havent’ come up with enough to relax about the situation and it is undermining my creativity.

I don’t want a lot of guesses about Netscape generated by people who may know less than I do.

The key point is that they can’t both be right. They share only one thing - saying negative things about Microsoft.

our strategy for the 90’s is Windows

I always thought other people in the company would end up pushing me to think more about thi financial upside