The e-mail continued to list eight complaints and observations by Allchin. Wynne Leong, a Creative representative in Singapore, declined to immediately comment on the Microsoft e-mails. In response to Allchin's e-mail Majidimehr wrote of Microsoft's lack of success in convincing its partners to use Windows Media Player over their own applications with their media players. Allchin's idea, of working with Apple to make iPod users' experiences with Windows better, was a good one, really. By making Windows or Windows Media Player work more seamlessly and easily with the popular product, Microsoft would be enhancing the value of its own products. Now, it's just wasting resources trying to replace the iPod.
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As part of an Iowa antitrust case, an interesting email from Windows boss Jim Allchin has been released, and it gives a pretty damning review of Microsoft and its partners' attempts at competing with the iPod. Given the subject line "sucking on media players", the November 2003 email also reveals that Allchin wanted to talk with Steve Jobs and Apple to better build support for the iPod into Windows Media Player after a "really terrible" experience with Windows and a Creative music player. The e-mail was one of a three made public that begin with a message from Allchin to Amir Majidimehr, currently head of Microsoft's consumer media technology group, documenting Allchin's thoughts and experiences using Creative Technology's Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra.
