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> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>>> The DFS troll is an idiot, & proves it the more he posts.
>>
>> Is MS Preening in Public Posts?
>>
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>>| The author of the email, posted on ZDNet in a Talkback forum on the
>>| Microsoft antitrust trial, claimed her name was Michelle Bradley and that
>>| she had "retired" from Microsoft last week.
>>|
>>| "A verbal memo [no email allowed] was passed around the MS campus
>>| encouraging MS employee's to post to ZDNet articles like this one," the
>>| email said.
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>> http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/02/17745
>
> "Microsoft has in the past, and probably does now, engage in this
> sort of thing," said James Love, director of the Consumer Project on
> Technology and a longtime Microsoft critic.
>
> "I'm always getting weird, suspect emails from people in response to
> my postings on Microsoft -- people who have a little too much inside
> information about the antitrust case or who have a particular point
> to grind," he said. Love recalled one man who used to harass him on
> an MSNBC forum, who later revealed himself to be a Microsoft employee
> in disguise.
>
> "This would not be strange behavior at all for them. They have a war
> mentality. It's like they never grew up over there."
>
> Computer consultant and industry analyst Brett Glass noted that there
> have been similar accusations proven against Microsoft in the past.
>
> . . .
>
> But Glass acknowledged it's very popular to hate Microsoft right now,
>
> Ya think?
>
> and there are plenty of people who could have faked the Michelle
> Bradley email.
>
> "There's a lot of mudslinging going on from both sides at the
> moment," he said.
That's small potatoes. Microsoft has always been (and it remains) a criminal
organisation. Objectively speaking [*], of course. It's likely to be sheltered
by a criminal cabinet that even flies over to other continents to fight law
enforcers.
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[*] Microfraud?
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| THE ALLEGATIONS WERE shocking: For years, Microsoft has systematically
| distorted its profit figures in an effort to consistently beat Wall Street
| expectations and keep its stock price steadily rising. The false reports
| would violate SEC regulations, and amount to outright fraud.
|
| More shocking was the source of the allegations: Microsoft's chief of
| internal audits, Charlie Pancerzewski, who reported directly to the company's
| chief financial officer.
|
| Most shocking of all was what happened to Pancerzewski when he reported the
| suspicious bookkeeping to his supervisors, Microsoft CFO Mike Brown and chief
| operating officer Bob Herbold, in the spring of 1995. Soon afterward,
| Pancerzewski—who for nearly five years had received stellar performance
| evaluations—received his first-ever unsatisfactory one, and was eventually
| forced to resign.
|
| Two months ago, Microsoft quietly settled a lawsuit containing these
| allegations, filed in 1997 by Pancerzewski under the Whistleblowers
| Protection Act. The auditor claimed he was wrongfully terminated after
| telling his supervisors that Microsoft might be breaking securities and tax
| laws. The lawsuit made its tortuous way through several rounds of pretrial
| motions until last fall, when US District Judge Carolyn Dimmick denied
| Microsoft's final plea for summary judgment, finding credible evidence that
| Microsoft may have violated SEC rules, as Pancerzewski alleged. Shortly
| thereafter, Microsoft and Pancerzewski settled out of court. Terms of the
| agreement were sealed, but one source who claims familiarity with the case
| says that Microsoft paid Pancerzewski $4 million.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20070308032343rn_2/www.seattleweekly.com/1999-01-06/news/microfraud.php
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"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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