From: "Rich Gauszka" 

LOL!

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:7hgbGtgaXuge092yn{at}attglobal.net...
> In article ,
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
>>
>>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=492
>>
>>The "Kitchen Client" software will extend the Windows
operating system and
>>integrate with current and future Windows Live services, according to
>>sources close to the company. It sounds, from what I can tell, more like
>>an
>>add-on layer than a whole new version of Windows.
>
> Monday, 10 AM -- Chicago, Illinois -- Start-up software developer
> Cuisine International announced CUISINENET, the first working program to
> seamlessly integrate word and food processing.  Called a breakthrough for
> small restaurants and snack bars, Cuisine Chairman Mark Meigs confidently
> predicted sales of thousands of copies with shipments soon to begin.
>
> Monday, 4 PM -- New York -- Cuisine International shares closed sharply
> higher on announcement of new CUISINENET product.
>
> Tuesday, 9 AM -- Redmond, Washington -- Microsoft Chairman William H.
> Gates, III announced that Microsoft Food for Windows would soon enter
> beta testing.  Gates described the product as the first of a projected
> family of products to include Food for Windows, designed for small
> commercial dining establishments; Personal Food for Windows, designed for
> home
> kitchens; Portable Food for Windows, designed for lunchboxes; and, of
> course,
> at the high end, Food for Windows NC (Nouvelle Cuisine) designed for large
> institutional dining rooms.  Asked by a reporter about
> CUISINENET, Gates said that he had never heard of the product, but was not
> surprised by it, because the software business is highly competitive, and
> Microsoft has to compete on the merits with many strong competitors, as
> the
> FTC had recently concluded.
>
> Tuesday, 3 PM -- Chicago, Illinois --  An angry Mark Meigs showed
> reporters a copy of the nondisclosure agreement signed by Bill Gates,
> under
> which Cuisine International had informed Microsoft a year earlier about
> plans
> for CUISINENET.  Meigs said that in hindsight, he should never have signed
> the
> agreement, as the only thing he learned from Microsoft was that Gates was
> considering making changing to Windows.
>
> Wednesday, 9 AM -- Redmond, Washington -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
> announced that Microsoft would soon publish specifications for the
> Windows Open Kitchen Architecture (WOKA), a series of design
> specifications to
> permit manufacturers of toasters, ranges, and other kitchen appliances to
> integrate their products into the forthcoming Microsoft Food for Windows
> line.
> Asked about reports of a nondisclosure agreement with Cuisine
> International
> for a similar product, Gates said that the other product was really at
> most a
> niche product, and would probably have less functionality than the
> food-related features that Microsoft would be building into the new
> Unsaturated FAT File System which would be part of DOS 7.0.  Gates said
> that
> he doubted there would be much interest in a dead-end solution that would
> not
> be able to keep up to date with advances in WOKA.  Gates added that over
> 11,000 manufacturers of kitchen appliances were already having serious
> discussions with Microsoft about WOKA, and that he expected almost all
> important eaters of food to standardize on the WOKA environment.
>
> Wednesday, 10 AM -- Redmond, Washington -- Microsoft Chairman Bill
> Gates announced that he would be giving the keynote speech at the American
> Bakers annual convention on "Nutrition at Your Fingertips." 
Gates played
> down
> speculation that he would use the Bakers convention to introduce Microsoft
> Food for Windows, saying only that alpha testing was proceeding ahead of
> schedule, and the product would be shipped when it was ready.
>
> Wednesday, 11 AM -- Redmond, Washington -- Microsoft Corporation
> announced that its Chairman, William H. Gates, III, had made a donation of
> over $250 of personal funds to the Cordon Bleu to begin an endowment fund
> for the Bill Gates Professorship of Advanced Cookery.  The famous French
> cooking school confirmed that it had agreed to be a beta site for the
> much discussed Food for Windows application sweet.
>
> Thursday, 9 AM -- New York -- PCWeek Magazine reported in a copyrighted
> story
> that it had obtained a copy of correspondence from Microsoft to Cuisine
> International, demanding that the small developer of kitchen software
> cease
> using the Cuisine name, as it infringes on the trademark for Microsoft
> Food
> for Windows NC.  Microsoft added that Chairman Mark Meigs would also have
> to
> change his own name as Mark infringed a copyright on the Windows Edit
> menu,
> Meigs infringed the trademark on Meigs Field in Microsoft Flight
> Simulator,
> and Chairman infringed the trademark on Bill Gates's title which he had
> acquired with personal funds from Mao's estate.  Also, Microsoft advised
> that
> while the company did not actually have to move out of Chicago, use of the
> name on press releases infringed a trademark on Windows 4.0
>
> Thursday, 4 PM -- New York -- Cuisine International stock closed at
> 0-bid, 1/16-asked.
>
> Friday, 9 AM -- ? -- An anonymous spokesman for an unnamed Midwestern
> software
> developer announced the discontinuation of operations.  Undescribed legal
> problems were cited as the reason.  Others speculated that a failure to
> appreciate the competitive nature of the software business may have led to
> the
> company's sudden collapse.
>
> Monday, 9 AM -- Microsoft Internal Mail
> From:  billg
> To:  mikem
> Re:  Food Program
> Please see if you can reassign one of the 3,000 engineers from the
> OS/2 virus development project to do a feasibility study on a food-related
> program.  Not sure what it would do.  Low priority.
>
> --------------------------------------
> Anomymous, from 1993.
>
>
> --
> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
> "New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
> preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
>    -- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286

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