With exquisite timing a very naughty mole leaks us an email from top Microsoft spinmeister Mark Murray. Not any old email, either - it's "Subject: Microsoft Internal -- Monday Memo 10/22/01" - the digest of the planned events for the week leading up to Der Tag, today, the XP launch in NYC. There's lots of good stuff in the email, which went out to: "Executive Staff and Direct Reports; GMs of Subsidiaries; Subsidiary PR Issues; Monday Memo Communications; Investor Relations; PR Org. Communications". Its basic role is: to drive home the various messages (not all of them concerning XP) Microsoft will be pushing this week; to keep everybody abreast of who's where, pushing what; to provide a heads-up regarding events to be covered in the next few weeks, and to akeep them abreast of what's going to be in tomorrow's newspapers.
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