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EDITORIAL: Schools must cash tech check: Unspent Microsoft settlement money is
like an unclaimed lottery ticket.
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| It's a windfall for California public schools: a $250 million grant from
| Microsoft for new computers, software and training, part of a $1.1-billion
| class-action lawsuit settlement against the company.
|
| [...]
|
| But two years later, nearly 80 percent of the money is still in the vault,
| unclaimed by California schools. Only a few Kern County school districts have
| started cashing in.
|
| The Panama-Buena Vista Union School District has had more than $519,000 of
| the pool set aside in its name, but, according to the settlement
| administrator's Web site, the money is still sitting there.
|
| Ditto for some of Kern County's smaller districts: Mojave Unified ($147,837),
| Buttonwillow ($19,305) and General Shafter ($15,240) haven't dipped into
| their share of the settlement money.
|
| It's important that they take advantage of the settlement, and not just for
| the most obvious reasons. The state's schools will eventually receive an even
| larger payout once a final part of the lawsuit is settled, but state
| attorneys might not be as motivated to pursue it while the original pot
remains so full.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-editorial-schools-must-cash-tech-check-unspent-microsoft-/2008/11/18/3796250.htm
Microsoft's crimes against consumers continue to this date (example below).
Last week:
E-mails Show 'Vista Capable' Changes Aided Intel
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| Pressured by Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. relaxed the rules for a crucial
| Windows Vista marketing program -- a move that let the chip maker sell older
| graphics chip sets that were incapable of meeting the original requirements,
| internal e-mails show.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/153919/vista_aided_intel.html?tk=rss_news
Microsoft nobbled ‘Vista-Capable’ for Intel
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| High-ranking Microsoft and Intel executives were involved in a plan to
| re-write the Windows Vista Capable program to save both companies - and
| OEMs - millions of dollars, according to unsealed court documents.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/14/intel_microsoft_vista_capable/
Top execs cast blame in Vista Capable 'mess'
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| After Microsoft loosened the requirements, senior vice president of HP's
| consumer PC unit, Richard Walker fired off an e-mail to Microsoft Chief
| Operating Officer Kevin Johnson and Jim Allchin, the co-president of
| Microsoft's platforms and services division.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/154454.asp?source=rss
Irate e-mails reveal HP, Microsoft strife
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| A surprise decision by Microsoft jeopardized its relationship with PC giant
| Hewlett-Packard a year before Windows Vista's release, according to internal
| e-mails unsealed late Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle. The messages,
| between top Microsoft and HP executives, shed new light on the
| behind-the-scenes turmoil that preceded the operating system's troubled
| debut.
|
| "You have demonstrated a complete lack of commitment to HP as a strategic
| partner and cost us a lot of money in the process," wrote HP executive
| Richard Walker in a January 2006 message to then-Microsoft Windows chief Jim
| Allchin. "Your credibility is severely damaged in my organization."
|
| [...]
|
| From: Jim Allchin
| Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:01 AM
| To: Steve Ballmer
| Cc: Kevin Johnson
| Subject: FW: Microsoft Vista Compatible Announcement
|
| I am beyond being upset here.
|
| This was totally mismanaged by Intel and Microsoft.
|
| What a mess.
|
| Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility, as well as my
| own credibility shot.
|
| I was away and I get back to see this mess.
|
| I was told all this started with a call between you and Paul (Otellini,
| Intel's CEO). I will have to get to the bottom of this and understand how we
| could be so insensitive in handing the situation.
|
| jim
|
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|
| From: Steve Ballmer
| Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 3:32 PM
| To: Jim Allchin
| Cc: Kevin Johnson
| Subject: RE: Microsoft Vista Compatible Announcement
|
| I had nothing to do with this. Will (Poole, another Windows executive)
| handled everything. I received a message that paul was going to call. Will
| said he would handle it. Paul called. I had not even had a chance to report
| his issues when Will told me he had solved them. (It did not sound like he
| had) I am not even in the detail of the issues
|
| You better get will under control thanks.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/HP_Microsoft_e-mails_reveal_more_Vista_fallout34518079.html
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