Dave managed to get copies of the internal Microsoft emails and memos from Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie that went out to top execs at Microsoft before last week’s Live anouncement.

Something weird happened just before midnight Eastern time, first the Wall Street Journal, then the NY Times, then the Seattle Post-Intelligencer all had reports on a memo leaked from inside Microsoft that was sent to top management and direct reports just before the press conference in San Francisco last Tuesday.

Dave isn’t naming his source but is confident they are authentic.

So I pressed several sources inside Microsoft to provide me with copies of the memos and at around 10PM this evening (Pacific time) I got an email containing the memos, with the understanding that I would not name the source. I am absolutely certain that the content is authentic.

This is a very interesting peek into the minds of Bill and Ray. Bill says “We will build our strategies around Internet services and we will provide a broad set of service APIs and use them in all of our key applications. This coming “services wave” will be very disruptive.”

Yeah, I think they may be right. Nice scoop Dave. It’s so much better to read the source material than to rely on big media for their interpretation.