From: Mike Porter
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:34 PM
To: Bill Gates
Cc: Jim Allchin; Brian Valentine
Subject: RE: Intel's design engineers and Windows
Sorry it's taken so much time to investigate. BrianV put a team together to nail this and in our opinion we did everything possible and had a pretty solid solution. Intel said they felt we didn't meet every need, although I've been pushing for the list of "how we failed them" for over 2 weeks now. Bottom line, IMHO, Intel doesn't want to deal with their internal politics and "sell" this transition internally. Think about our development org. bright, extremely talented and opinionated folks... and at Intel, the developer crowd was raised on Unix/Linux. They just don't WANT to move. Also, this was originally being driven by Albert, and that changed to Gelsinger for a while. I'm not sure given their recent changes internally who owns this. This may be an area that Otellini could help.
Given that you are meeting with Paul on the 14th of this month (and we have a prep meeting on the 6th), is there any data I can get you to aid in your discussion with Paul?
--Original Message--
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 1:41 PM
To: Mike Porter
Cc: Jim Allchin; Brian Valentine
Subject: Intel's design engineers and Windows
Where are we on this Jihad?
Do I need to be calling and emailing Ottelini to get this back on tract??
Every day that goes by is a bad one for us on this. Despite the difficulty we need to draw thw line in the sand on this one for a lot of reasons.