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Here's something someone posted on CI$:
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Subj: New MS Product Section: Open Forum [USER]
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From: Rick DeBay 74640,1630 # 67352, 1 Reply
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To: ALL Date: 17-Apr-93 15:48:24
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Monday, 10 AM -- Chicago, Illinois -- Start-up software developer Cuisine
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International announced CUISINENET, the first internetworking program to
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seamlessly integrate word and food processing. Called a breakthrough for
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small restaurants and snack bars, Cuisine Chairman Mark Meigs confidently
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predicted sales of thousands of copies with shipments soon to begin.
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Monday, 4 PM -- New York -- Cuisine International shares closed sharply
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higher on announcement of new CUISINENET product.
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Tuesday, 9 AM -- Redmond, Washington -- Microsoft Chairman William H.
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Gates, III announced that Microsoft Food for Windows would soon enter beta
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testing. Gates described the product as the first of a projected family of
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products to include Food for Windows, designed for small commercial dining
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establishments; Personal Food for Windows, designed for home kitchens;
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Portable Food for Windows, designed for lunchboxes; and, of course, at the
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high end, Food for Windows NC (Nouvelle Cuisine) designed for large
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institutional dining rooms. Asked by a reporter about CUISINENET, Gates
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said that he had never heard of the product, but was not surprised by it
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because the software business is highly competitive, and Microsoft has to
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compete on the merits with many strong competitors, as the FTC had
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recently concluded.
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Tuesday, 3 PM -- Chicago, Illinois -- An angry Mark Meigs showed reporters
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a copy of the nondisclosure agreement signed by Bill Gates, under which
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Cuisine International had informed Microsoft a year earlier about plans
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for CUISINENET. Meigs said that in hindsight, he should never have signed
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the agreement, as the only thing he learned from Microsoft was that Gates
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was considering making changes to Windows.
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Wednesday, 9 AM -- Redmond, Washington -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
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announced that Microsoft would soon publish specifications for the Windows
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Open Kitchen Architecture (WOKA), a series of design specifications to
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permit manufacturers of toasters, ranges, and other kitchen appliances to
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integrate their products into the forthcoming Microsoft Food for Windows
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line. Asked about reports of a nondisclosure agreement with Cuisine
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International for a similar product, Gates said that the other product
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was really at most a niche product, and would probably have less
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functionality than the food-related features that Microsoft would be
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building into the new Unsaturated FAT File System which would be part
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of DOS 7.0. Gates said that he doubted there would be much interest
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in a dead-end solution that would not be able to keep up to date with
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advances in WOKA. Gates added that over 11,000 manufacturers of kitchen
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appliances were already having serious discussions with Microsoft about
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WOKA, and that he expected almost all important eaters of food to
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standardize on the WOKA environment.
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Wednesday, 10 AM -- Redmond, Washington -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
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announced that he would be giving the keynote speech at the American
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Bakers annual convention on "Nutrition at Your Fingertips." Gates played
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down speculation that he would use the Bakers convention to introduce
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Microsoft Food for Windows, saying only that alpha testing was proceeding
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ahead of schedule, and the product would be shipped when it was ready.
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Wednesday, 11 AM -- Redmond, Washington -- Microsoft Corporation announced
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that its Chairman, William H. Gates, III, had made a donation of over of
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personal funds to the Cordon Bleu to begin an endowment fund for the Bill
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Gates Professorship of Advanced Cookery. The famous French cooking school
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confirmed that it had agreed to be a beta site for the much discussed Food
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for Windows application sweet.
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Thursday, 9 AM -- New York -- PCWeek Magazine reported in a copyrighted
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story that it had obtained a copy of correspondence from Microsoft to
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Cuisine International, demanding that the small developer of kitchen
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software cease using the Cuisine name, as it infringes on the trademark
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Microsoft Food for Windows NC. Microsoft added that Chairman Mark Meigs
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would also have to change his own name as Mark infringed a copyright on
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Windows Edit menu, Meigs infringed the trademark on Meigs Field in
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Microsoft Flight Simulator, and Chairman infringed the trademark on
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Bill Gates's title which he had acquired with personal funds from Mao's
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estate. Also, Microsoft advised that while the company did not actually
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have to move out of Chicago, use of the name on press releases infringed
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a trademark on Windows 4.0
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Thursday, 4 PM -- New York -- Cuisine International stock closed at 0-buy
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1/16-asked.
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Friday, 9 AM -- ? -- An anonymous spokesman for an unnamed Midwestern
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software developer announced the discontinuation of operations.
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Undescribed legal problems were cited as the reason. Others speculated
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that a failure to appreciate the competitive nature of the software
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business may have led to the company's sudden collapse.
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Monday, 9 AM -- Microsoft Internal Mail
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From: billg
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To: mikem
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Re: Food Program
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Please see if you can reassign one of the 3,000 engineers from the
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OS/2 virus development project to do a feasibility study on a
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food-related program. Not sure what it would do. Low priority.
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* KWQ/2 1.0 *
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-!- Maximus 2.01wb
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@ Origin: Stingray! - Fresno, CA - [209-434-4215] - HST/DS (1:205/12)
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--- Blue Wave/Max v2.12 [NR]
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* Origin: The Funny Papers * Right Place, Right Name (143:201/478.0)
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