Nine weeks after it started, this case is closed
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| Microsoft has settled dozens of similar antitrust cases in state
| courts in recent years. In only one other case, in Minnesota in
| 2004, was the settlement reached after trial had begun.
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http://www.businessrecord.com/Main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=9&ArticleID=3415
Related:
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| "Most of those allegations had been out there... And those e-mails were
| old. We were very anxious to continue the trial so we could tell our
| story." (Rich Wallis, MS general counsel)
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http://www.computerpartner.nl/article.php?news=int&id=4756
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| 'Even though there was a corporate policy in place that any *.pst was to be
| excluded from backup capture, the effort failed. Not only did the Backup
| Exec software fail to filter out those pst files, but some of the involved
| blue badges (Microsoft employees) intentionally disguised their mail files
| so that they would not be recognized and included in the nightly backups'
|
| 'Back about two years ago when the judge told MS to cough up the rest of
| the emails that was supposed to have floated around between MS execs that
| discussed the Burst relationship .. And then THE TAPES DISAPPEARED'
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http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_1.html
http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_4.html
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| 'At Burst's request, Microsoft had provided all its internal e-mail
| messages .. when they put those messages in chronological order they
| noticed something odd: there were no messages from the 35 weeks period
| during which the two companies were in discussions'
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http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/6682208.htm
Among those things that Microsoft tried to hide:
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1989 9:44 AM
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf
Allchin's 'Buy a Mac' E-Mail Exposed
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| "I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do
| what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage
| system. LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this
| problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we
| need to start taking the lessons of 'scenario, simple, fast' to
| heart. Jim"
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/allchins_buy_a_mac_email_exposed.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/y5cuu6
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| "(Microsoft manager:) I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
| on TCO on webservers. I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
| on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the
| fact that the reports says nothing new is coming with windows .net server."
|
| [...]
|
| "I don't like it to be public on the doc that we sponsored it because I
| don't think the outcome is as favorable as we had hoped. I just don't like
| competitors using it as ammo against us. It is easier if it doesn't mention
| that we sponsored it."
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09695.pdf
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