From: Steven Sinofsky Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 9:37 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: FW: Surface sales physics after a week MS wrote off 900M on inventory...this is a mail thread from November saying this will happen. Kevin Turner is the COO. Even better--at the last minute this 900M was an increase over the "planned" write off. Classic "well it is bad news so let's bank some of it".... From: Steven Sinofsky Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 10:54 PM To: Kevin Turner; Steve Ballmer Subject: RE: Surface sales physics after a week But this is for January. Kevin previously indicated this was already the plan and given that we want to do a good job in January and there is only a little bit of more work time relative to 12/1 it seems like we are on a path not to have time to do what is viewed as a good job in January either. So I was just going along with what he said was the plan for O1. I didn't even know about that was a plan as I had previously indicated--I just held them back from everything while we talked about doing something near term. Their view was to roll in the near term with the longer term as you saw in the deck. Are you saying now that there was not a plan for Ca? Sent from Windows Mail From: Steve Ballmer Sent: November 5, 2012 10:49 PM To: Steven Sinofsky, Kevin Turner Subject: RE: Surface sales physics after a week EFTA_R1_01741984 EFTA02572388