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Confidential Microsoft Emails Posted Online
dos4who writes "From the class action 'Comes et al. v. Microsoft' suit, some very enlightening internal Microsoft emails are now made public. Emails to and from Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Jim Allchin, etc all make for some mind blowing reading. One of my favorites is from Jim Allchin to Bill Gates, entitled 'losing our way,' in which Allchin states 'I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.'"
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If only they had used lycos for their email.
In communist Russia, the Mac would buy Allchin today if it weren't working for Microsoft.
You clearly do not read /. often.
Stay tuned!
Most of those email are plain-text. Is it really necessary to pdf them? Why don't they print them out, then take a picture of the printout on a wooden table, and post *that* to the web.
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Hmm, looks like some material here to post for new articles on Wikiquote! :-)
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When he said...
If it's just a matter of hating Adobe Reader, there are free open-source alternatives out there.
What did you hear?
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
Actually, that comment is indicative of a well run business. They identified problems with their own products, they identified their competitors' strengths, and they moved to address those issues. Realizations like that are part of the reason that they're the #1 software company on the planet.
I don't respond to AC's.
They would want to buy a Mac. You can do a LOT more things a LOT cheaper on a normal PC.
Is Jim Allchin.
I mean, his chin isn't particulary prominent at all.
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Jim Allchin, is that you?! Never knew you hung out here too
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I didn't see where Kevin Bacon figures in?
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MS-DOS used ^Z for EOF, like VMS. That's also where they got the forward slash for command line arguments.
try:
COPY NUL: C:\COMMAND.COM
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Sorry, typo. Obviously I meant to say Your troll is using your computer.
You must be mad...programmers don't play golf, or any other sport the exposes one to sunshine.
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
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It's an attention-getting way of phrasing things. Sort of like that scene in Men in Black where Will Smith has figured out a critically important piece of information, and he keeps trying to tell everyone but nobody will listen, so eventually he just loudly yells out, "YO, OLD GUYS!".
In case you're wondering, I don't really have anything to contribute. I just really like that scene.