"[Steve Ballmer] thinks we ought to admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner"

From: Paul Maritz
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 1997 6:37 PM
To: Jonathan Roberts
Cc: Jim Allchin; Moshe Dunie
Subject: Steveb & Win98

Since the press gave Billg & Steveb a hard time this week at the press retreat, Steveb is panic’d that we are setting expectations too high on Windows 98. He thinks we ought to come out and admit that Windows 98 will be a yawner…