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[News] [Rival] New Leaked Microsoft E-mails That Caused Harm

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] New Leaked Microsoft E-mails That Caused Harm
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:45:23 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Microsoft's Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails

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| Raikes highlighted the dominant market position of Windows and described 
| the "pricing discretion" that Microsoft has been able to exercise. 
| 
|     "In some respects I see the business characteristics of Coca Cola or 
|     See's Candy as being very similar to Microsoft," Raikes wrote, referring 
|     to two of Buffett's high-profile investments. "E.g. in FY96 there were 50 
|     million PC's sold in the world, and about 80% of them were licensed for a 
|     Microsoft operating system. Although I would never write down the analogy 
|     of a 'toll bridge,' people outside our company might describe this 
|     business in that way."      
| 
| Raikes added later, "There is an R&D charge to the business, but I'm sure the 
| profits are probably as good as the syrup business!" 
| 
| The message didn't turn Buffett into a big tech investor, but it was helpful 
| to plaintiffs pursuing the company on antitrust charges. It surfaced years 
| later as evidence in a class-action suit against Microsoft in Minnesota.  
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/133050.asp?source=rss

"Toll bridge..."


Recent:

Raikes and Other Exits

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| It's weird that Mini and all the commenters here have failed to notice the 
| mass exodus from the Xbox team in 2007. By my count, more than 15% of the 
| product team (dev/PM/test) have left Microsoft for Apple, Sony, Google, 
| Yahoo, MySpace, Amazon, and various other companies (including several 
| startups, local and in the Valley).    
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http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/01/raikes-and-other-exits.html

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