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MICROSOFT CRIME HURT CONSUMERS
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| You portrayed Microsoft crime only as providing low-cost superior goods in a
| way deemed harmful to competitors. Not true! Microsoft's crime was forcing
| computer manufacturers to pay a royalty for every computer sold, in order to
| ship Microsoft's MS-DOS...
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http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VP&p_theme=vp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFF799E8C3F79E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
Microsoft Trial -- Compaq Staff Feared Sabotage, Retaliation
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| A Compaq Computer executive testified that personal-computer makers have no
| alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system, while other employees of
| the Texas PC manufacturer described Microsoft as a monopoly capable of
| retaliatory practices and sabotage.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/7523/realnetworks_accuses_microsoft_of_sabotage.html
Judge's public critique of Microsoft raises questions
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| Microsoft's "crime" was its hubris -- that is, an oversized pride that
| prevented the company from acknowledging that U.S. antitrust laws applied to
| it, Jackson told article author Ken Auletta.
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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/01/11/010111hnjackson.html
They then 'pulled a Peter Quinn' on Judge Jackson:
State AGs sabotaging Microsoft settlement
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| A year ago February, Thomas Penfield Jackson, the trial court judge,
| appointed a distinguished jurist, Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of
| Appeals in Chicago, to mediate a settlement. With draconian penalties
| looming, Microsoft accepted demands by the Justice Department that included
| tough, continuing regulation of the company's marketing tactics. But the
| hard-line state Attorneys general -- notably those from California,
| Connecticut, Massachusetts and Iowa -- vetoed the deal, leading the
| frustrated mediator to point out in public that the "states do not have the
| resources to do more than free ride on federal antitrust litigation,
| complicating its resolution."
|
| Since then, an appellate court has rolled back most of the findings of legal
| liability that gave the government its leverage and instructed the trial
| court to create remedies that fit the "drastically altered" circumstances.
| Under prodding to settle from the newly appointed judge, Colleen Kollar-
| Kotelly, prosecutors worked out another deal that puts a lid on Microsoft's
| aggressive behavior -- albeit one less confining than the agreement
| California Attorney General Lockyer and company so righteously dismissed
| almost two years ago. A rump group of attorneys general have now declared
| that they will oppose the proposed settlement when Judge Kollar-Kotelly
| formally reviews it.
|
| Why are they asking the court to derail the settlement, effectively
| guaranteeing that the case won't be resolved for years?
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/08/ED148465.DTL
Maybe they were influenced by dead people (letters which the criminals from
Microsoft sent on 'their behalf').
MICROSOFT READY FOR FLOOD OF LAWSUITS
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| Lawyers are opening the spigots on what is expected to be a flood of private
| lawsuits alleging that Microsoft Corp. used its control of the market to
| overcharge customers.
| In the wake of a federal judge's ruling that the software giant is a
| monopoly, class-action attorneys in California were expected to file one suit
| against Microsoft today in that state's courts.
| Last week in New Orleans, an attorney filed suit in federal court seeking to
| represent millions of Windows 98 owners nationwide, alleging that Microsoft
| used intimidation to reduce consumers' choices and force them to pay higher
| prices.
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-24071902.html
Government Has the Edge So Far in U.S. vs. Microsoft
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| Avadis Tevanian, an Apple Computer Inc. senior vice president, comes armed
| with allegations of blackmail, software sabotage and an illegal
| market-division attempt by Microsoft in multimedia software. The
| market-division charge could be especially damaging, because it echoes a core
| claim made by the Justice Department and 20 states in the broad antitrust
| lawsuits they filed in May.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB909949861267465000.html?mod=googlewsj
Apple: MS 'Sabotaged' QuickTime
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| An Apple Computer executive questioned by a Microsoft lawyer on Wednesday
| stuck by his accusation that the software giant had "sabotaged" Apple's
| multimedia software.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1998/11/16058
RealNetworks Accuses Microsoft of Sabotage
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| Highlight from Senate hearings: CEO Robert Glaser claims Windows Media Player
| intentionally disables RealNetworks product.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/7523/realnetworks_accuses_microsoft_of_sabotage.html
Microsoft Accused of Sabotaging Witness's Computer Program
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| Testifying as a Government witness, Dr. Felten said several computers on
| which Internet Explorer had been removed with his ''prototype removal
| program'' worked smoothly through the summer, even when used to visit a
| special Microsoft Web page for updates to Windows 98.
|
| But then in September, Dr. Felten testified, he gave Microsoft a copy of the
| source code for his removal program as part of a pretrial discovery request.
| After that, he said, ''Microsoft modified the software'' behind the company's
| update Web page ''to make it incompatible'' with computers that had been
| altered by his removal program.
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E1DB143DF936A25751C1A96E958260
Industry group rips Microsoft's `extortion'
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| A group of computer and telephone companies charged yesterday that Microsoft
| was using "extortion" in its battle with Netscape Communications Corp. for
| dominance in selling browsers for the World Wide Web.
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http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0F2C3C420C39A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
Microsoft Accused of Trying To Get Away with Murder.
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| Late Tuesday the unappeased states rushed breathlessly into court with the
| news that they had made the horrifying discovery that Microsoft was actually
| benefiting from its settlement with the Justice Department.
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http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25065106_ITM
Related:
Whistleblower settles after Microsoft SEC fraud claim
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| He claimed to have been forced to resign in 1995 after reporting his
| suspicions about Microsoft bookkeeping to CFO Mike Brown and COO Bob Herbold.
|
| [...]
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| But court records of the case show Pancerzewski had claimed he'd been ordered
| to destroy a consultant's report about potential tax liabilities in Europe,
| and that he'd found that Microsoft was controlling the level of reported
| income by switching money back and forth from reserves. Much simplified, this
| procedure involves putting money into reserves in good times, and
| transferring it back into reported income when times are hard. It's used to
| keep earnings apparently growing smoothly, and it is illegal, under SEC
| rules.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/01/09/whistleblower_settles_after_microsoft_sec/
Unauthorized biography of Steve Ballmer turns up little new
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| A lengthy anecdote about accounting irregularities exposed by whistleblower
| Charles Pancerzewski concludes weakly, "Microsoft paid over $4 million to
| make Pancerzewski go away, an amount that presumably wouldn't be paid out
| without the Office of the President, the trio to which Ballmer belonged,
| signing off on it."
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/86841_ballmer13.shtml
Microsoft's Accounting Under Scrutiny
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| The company has still not made enough information public to provide analysts
| with detailed information on the profitability of its MSN Internet business,
| Mr. Galvin said, adding, ''There's still room for them to obfuscate.''
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E1DC173DF932A35754C0A96F958260
Microsoft - Undeserving of Libertarian Praise
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| One strategy that Microsoft has employed in the past is paying for the
| silence of people and companies. Charles Pancerzewski, formerly Microsoft's
| chief auditor, became aware of Microsoft's practice of carrying earnings from
| one accounting period into another, known as "managing earnings". This
| practice smoothes reported revenue streams, increases share value, and
| misleads employees and shareholders. In addition to being unethical, it's
| also illegal under U.S. Securities Law and violates Generally Accepted
| Accounting Practices (Fink). Mr. Pancerzewski claims he was forced to retire,
| for raising the issue of deferred earnings with Microsoft executives, thereby
| making plausible deniability more difficult for said executives. He has since
| sued Microsoft, who responded by settling out of court, but also sealing the
| records to prevent public disclosure (Fink).
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/20/11034/3908
Microsoft Agrees To Refrain From Accounting Violations in SEC Settlement
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| Microsoft has agreed to refrain from accounting violations to settle federal
| regulators' allegations that it misrepresented its financial performance, the
| government announced Monday.
|
| Under a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the software
| giant neither admitted to nor denied wrongdoing. No fine was imposed.
|
| The SEC alleged that Microsoft's accounting practices from July 1994 through
| June 1998 caused its income to be substantially misstated.
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http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18819490
"Microsoft Tax," MSN Enters the Black Hole, New Names for NT
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| The lawsuit, filed last year by Mukilteo City Councilman Charles
| Pancerzewski, alleges that he was forced to resign as Microsoft's general
| auditor in January 1996 after working for the company's internal auditing
| department for more than four years. The suit claims that a "significantly
| younger man" with little auditing experience was picked to replace
| Pancerzewski, who was finally forced out because he discovered Microsoft
| might have been violating government regulations. Once Pancerzewski left the
| company he was replaced by the younger man, who his attorneys believe
| was "less prone to raise issues of possible legal improprieties which could
| threaten or embarrass Microsoft or its management.
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http://www.msboycott.com/news/98_06_22.shtml
SEC Investigating Microsoft Practices -- Earnings Manipulated, Former Employee
Contends
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| "The CFO to whom Charlie was reporting his concerns about illegality was the
| biggest advocate for the very illegality that was going on," Vial argued in
| court a year ago.
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http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990701&slug=2969514
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