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New Documents Shed Light on Microsoft's Tactics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the skeletons-from-the-closet dept.

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."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    propz to gnaa

  2. Re:Andy Grove intimidation? by pubjames · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Trying to intimidate the guy who would kidnap misbehaving Intel employees and keep them locked in his cellar in Oregon for weeks on end?

    Sounds interesting. Reference?

  3. MOD SPAMMING PARENT DOWN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sir, why do you need to post nine links to your tard website in one post? Is it so that you can get more opportunities to rake in Google ad clicks?

    1. Re:MOD SPAMMING PARENT DOWN! by Inda · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      He posts under other names too - not recently though. I'm guessing 50 accounts that have been karma whored, each one used to mod up his daily spam posts.

      If you log in and 'disrespect' him, he adds you as a friend. I feel honoured, I honestly do.

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    2. Re:MOD SPAMMING PARENT DOWN! by cubic6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      If you wanna mess with him, copy his links and put them in each of your posts, but change them so they all point to "Troll". That should help his ratings...

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  4. Re:Article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc

    I'm a Windows user, and therefore I have no way of knowing what the HECK your signature means. Would you mind if I dropped you an e-mail at rikardur@sky.fr and ask you to tell me what it does?

    Thanks!

  5. Re:Article by mab · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    [mab@pluto mab]$ echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D7272 C3AF4F2snlbxq'|dc
    rika

  6. Re:ENOUGH WITH THE ANTI MICROSOFT FUD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think that is the most incredible case of "Completely missed the point" i've ever seen. Exceptional, even for slashdot.

  7. Re:Psion Lives on in Symbian by Daengbo · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    FATAL ERROR: Expected ')' in line 22
    I got kinda lost in the middle because of that. Maybe you can clear it up for me a little...
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  8. Re:good morning slashdot!! by buddydawgofdavis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and good morning to you, fp troll guy!

  9. Re:Article by zero_offset · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It doesn't do anything unless you have a program called "dc" on your machine.
    I believe that was a "disk compare" program under older versions of Windows left over from the MS-DOS days. It might be in Win98, but I don't think it was part of any later versions.

    No idea what it does beyond piping some junk through dc. Hmm. I probably have an old less-than-1GB drive sitting around somewhere with Win95 or DOS on it...

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  10. Re:assuming that u had some respect for M$ by pedicabo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The reason I use MS software is quite simple. It works out of the box. I have several PCs. Some run Linux of some description. One runs XP-Pro and Office. It also has a few games and a variety of development apps. That's the one I am using now. The others are for playing with. None of them are online because there are no drivers for my broadband modem, even for the distro which cost 70BP+ (about $100 US) this year. I plugged the modem into my windows box and I was online. Just like that.

  11. pwned! by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Hahaha! Dude, you got pwned!

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  12. Re:A desensitized public? by lordkimbot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Touche'
    Kill as many people as you want and spend as much as you can killing them.

    Sex in the Oval Office! Burn HIM!!!! WITCHES!!!

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