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Confidential Microsoft Emails Posted Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the behind-the-curtain dept.

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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  1. broken legal system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everytime I see one of these leaked court documents I think how justified in fact are corporations (and inidividuals) when they ignore the legal system and the law. A legal system who shows so little self respect, letting these leaks happen, not investigating prosectuing and harshly punishing the source of such leaks, cannot expect others to respect it.

    1. Re:broken legal system by sgt_doom · · Score: -1, Troll
      And I for one would humbly add, "Go ahead, Jim, buy that Mac, live a little, dood, and after you've stroked that Mac a bit, perhaps go back and try and fondle Windows XP and find out the true meaning of MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT!

      iPod ergo sum

  2. But corporations are people too! by Colin+Smith · · Score: 1, Troll

    because of some non-existent "corporate right to privacy." Don't they deserve the right to privacy, just like the rest of us?

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  3. Re:It is actually a healthy sign by pallmall1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Knowing enough Microsoft employees given my locality to Redmond I have learned that they both use Microsoft products and speak out strongly against what they feel are bad decisions due to extreme pride both in thier own work and others work at the company.
    Baloney. They work for a den of thieves and are such themselves. They should hang there heads in shame at the shoddy, insecure, unreliable shit their "company of pride" turns out. Anyone who works for Microsoft deserves no respect, because they work for a company that lies, cheats, steals, and threatens in their routine operations.

    And if they claim they need a paycheck, tell them to whore their daughters. There's more dignity in that than working for microsoft.
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    3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.