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Security as a lock in

Bill Gates to Nathan Myhrvold, July 23, 1997

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From
Bill Gates
Sent
Wednesday, July 23, 1997 2:53 PM
To
Nathan Myhrvold
Cc
Paul Maritz
Subject
Security as a lock in
I believe as we evolve our security capabilities there must be some way to set this up so that our operating systems have shared secrets with each other that make them work better with each other than with other operating systems - whether it's JAVAOS layered on top of us or clones or anything else. I think we need to make this an explicit goal of our security strategy.
BGX-000020

About this email

Gates asked Nathan Myhrvold whether Microsoft operating systems could share secrets that make them work better with each other than with other operating systems. Myhrvold replied the same afternoon that it seemed very possible.