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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.'"
called they want their Halloween documents back!
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If only they had used lycos for their email.
You clearly do not read /. often.
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.
"It is a good divine that follows his own instructions" - Portia, The Merchant of Venice
I think I speak for all of us when I say you need to work on your Soviet-Russia jokes....
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
"you need to work on your Soviet-Russia jokes...."
No. Please don't.
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.
-- Of course I'm paranoid. I'm a sysadmin.
Jim Allchin, is that you?! Never knew you hung out here too
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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
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Sorry, typo. Obviously I meant to say Your troll is using your computer.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.