Microsoft on standards

Via An Antic Disposition:

...from the many exhibits made public in the Iowa Comes v. Microsoft case, this in the opening "Evangelism is War" section of a report called Effective Evangelism.

Our mission is to establish Microsoft's platforms as the de facto standards throughout the computer industry. Our enemies are the vendors of platforms that compete with ours: Netscape, Sun, IBM, Oracle, Lotus, etc. The field of battle is the software industry. Success is measured in shipping applications. Every line of code that is written to our standards is a small victory; every line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small defeat. Total victory, for DRG [Developer Relations Group], is the universal adoption of our standards by developers, as this is an important step towards total victory for Microsoft itself: 'A computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software.

[Update 17 February 2007:

Via Groklaw: "...Microsoft settled the Iowa class action lawsuit, after a fight about getting access to documents used by the expert witnesses."  So the links I put up above on the public documents and on "Effective Evangelism" are gone.]