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New Documents Shed Light on Microsoft's Tactics
Tigen writes "As the NY Times reports, even as MS prepares to face penalties from the European Union, testimony during the second week of trial in the consumer class-action lawsuit in Minnesota has revealed some embarrassing internal documents from Microsoft which were not disclosed in the 1997 federal antitrust lawsuit. Items include a 1990 letter from Bill Gates to Andy Grove, and Microsoft's illegal tactics against the Go Corporation, a Silicon Valley startup."
Microsoft has actually been a bad big corp? Tell me it isn't so...
OK it's so, let the "Exchange server ate my email" excuse begin!
This space is not for rent.
Sounds eeriely like a movie script minus Erin Brockovich..
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
Microsoft would not leak so many embarrassing documents if they never wrote anything down. But, I hear you say, surely people will just record what they say and leak the recordings. Well, not if they conduct all their business in mime. So that is my suggestion. Microsoft should do everything by mime.
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apt-get install deathstar && deathstar alderaan && echo "You're far too trusting"
Yeah, and I heard that ObviousGuy can't orgasm unless he kills a dog.
Of course, that's just what I heard.
Whenever you append "&partner=google" to the end of a NYTimes URL, you're in sans registration.
Well, whenever you append "&partner=[Anything]" you are in ...
Try http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/24/technology/24sof t.html?ex=1080709200&en=81be83eda9c09dad&ei=5062&p artner=AlQaida
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
Whenever you append "&partner=google" to the end of a NYTimes URL, you're in sans registration.
But what if San wants to use his registration when we already are? Then what will he do?!
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
Im submitting this from my gitmo cage right now! It's not so bad really, though this tablet PC is just junk. I mean seriously! Damn thing only gets 12 fps on counterstrike.
Well, I've tried telling my Windows support leaches that I don't remember much about Windows any more, but it doesn't seem to help. They go on and on anyway about all the things they have already tried and still they get this message on start-up that doesn't stay up long enough for them to read but tells them that something is missing.
I suppose I COULD give them outright bogus advice... "Try deleting some of your registry keys. Too many of those can cause problems like that." But then, that wouldn't be very nice would it? On the other hand, once their system was totally toast maybe they'd be more inclined to give a true manly operating system a try.
"Dat girly-man operating system should be a ting of de past" - Ahnuld
From the article:
A Microsoft spokeswoman said that many of these newly disclosed documents were not relevant to the trial, which focuses on Microsoft pricing actions.
Oh, of course, sorry. Yes, these documents aren't relevant for the current trial, so we should just ignore them completely and pretend they don't exist.
"These are not the documents you are looking for..."
Jedidiah.
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people give you very weird looks when you tell them you don't use windows
Yes. I had to suffer my sister lecuring me about how clever Microsoft was to "invent" Windows and the web (Internet Explorer == web), and she rolled her eyes in disbelief when I tried to explain to her that they didn't actually invent them.
...can be seen here: Link
SO.... for all ye programmers... // what they must have coded //should read
if($partner) $access = 1;
switch($partner){
case 'google':
$access = 1;
break;
case 'slashdot':
$access = 1;
break;
default:
$access = 0;
break;
}
By revealing this information you are allowing people to circumvent the NYT's access protection mechanism. I'm going to have to report you for violating the DMCA. I'm sure the NYT lawyers will be in touch with you shortly.
I'm being a good PATRIOT, see? See?
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
Oh i dunno, never been to an MSCE camp have we?
And flying cars. Don't forget the flying cars.
And now that the link is on slashdot, the admins at the NY Times will wonder why AlQuaida suddenly is their biggest partner! Picture their faces when they run their log analysis tool...
``Using something other than windows is almost a stigma in some circles (circles the average slashdotter has little contact with, and avoids as much as possible)''
That's just _so_ right. And it works the other way around, too. Imagine how astonished I was when I figured how many people WHO STUDY CS not only use Windows, but INSIST ON IT. It was simply shocking. I'm happy I don't have to work with them. Oh, and they accuse me of being a Linux zealot.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Isn't that forbidden by DMCA? :)
for removing the shameless hype about Go Corp from the IT press.
During a few months you couldn't open a computer magazine without Go Corp being hyped in every article.
Every article during that time had Go Corp hyped in every paragraph.
I got so fed up of reading about Go Corp in every paragraph in every article in every computer magazine that I cancelled a few subscriptions.
Then good enough access to the internet came along, and I didn't need those subscriptions anymore, and Go Corp was but a vague memory.
Can we stop bringing up daemons from the past, and leave Go Corp for once and for all behind us ?
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
Maybe in the circles he runs in, that is tactful :)
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Except with the words "handwriting" and "exemplary" :-)
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
and Microsoft's illegal tactics against the Go Corporation
Bill: Go stop Go
Lackie: What?
Bill: Stop the Go company
Lackie: Oh, go and stop a company, but which one?
Bill: THE Go company
Lackie: Oh! Go!
Bill: Yeah, now go!
Lackie: You mean they renamed it from something else?
Bill: No, I mean you. You go.
Lackie: Okay, I'll go and stop Go
Bill: Stop it!
Lackie: Yeah, stop Go.
Bill: No, I mean stop repeating me.
Lackie: Maybe I should go.
Bill: Okay, but don't forget to stop Go.
Lackie: Got it! I will stop It.
Bill: It's Go, not it.
Lackie: Me or the company?
Bill: Nevermind, I'll do it myself, now GET THE HELL OUT!
Table-ized A.I.
You can't have Bill Gates haircut and be cool.
No matter how evil or how much money.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Well, we saw how long that corporate strategy lasted...
Xenon, where's my money? -Borno