with MS being based in the US, it seems more plausible that MS execs might personally know execs of the big US exchanges
If Microsoft's execs were buddies with the NYSE or NASDAQ execs, you can bet that their goal would be to get NYSE/NASDAQ running Microsoft's software. (Probably by demonstrating how reliable it was and how competitive it could make a rival stock exchange.)
I can't see Microsoft entering into some elaborate, illegal conspiracy to insert logic bombs into Windows and.Net to benefit stock exchanges that are nowhere near essential to its mainline business. Even if their kids played on the same little league team.
...they seem totally unwilling to allow raw statistics to rule their decisionmaking.
[(Not to mention that 1) there is no system to ensure that the testing that is currently done is a representative sample of animals and 2) The prevalence of BSEs in US cattle is small, but essentially unknown at present, due to--you guessed it--insufficient testing)
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If Microsoft's execs were buddies with the NYSE or NASDAQ execs, you can bet that their goal would be to get NYSE/NASDAQ running Microsoft's software. (Probably by demonstrating how reliable it was and how competitive it could make a rival stock exchange.)
I can't see Microsoft entering into some elaborate, illegal conspiracy to insert logic bombs into Windows and .Net to benefit stock exchanges that are nowhere near essential to its mainline business. Even if their kids played on the same little league team.
...they seem totally unwilling to allow raw statistics to rule their decisionmaking. [(Not to mention that 1) there is no system to ensure that the testing that is currently done is a representative sample of animals and 2) The prevalence of BSEs in US cattle is small, but essentially unknown at present, due to--you guessed it--insufficient testing)