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Jon DeVaan's avatar

I think it was when the Chicago team said it would RTM in April that there was a meeting with BillG about Office's RTM date. ChrisP repeated the "Windows + 30 days" ship date and then said, "September." Bill said, "So you're saying April + 30 days is September?" And Chris said, "In Windows date arithmetic, yes."

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Damian Morris's avatar

"Then one day after I joined the OPU team, PPathe, GM of Word, told me what he had started saying to the Word team. Whenever people complained about OPU he reminded the team “[T]he best feature we have for competing with WordPerfect is Excel.” He finally had his messaging that appealed to the Word-first zealots—they would win by having Excel be a great feature of Word. Brilliant"

I love this, and am totally stealing it :)

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