__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:24 \__
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>> They have been doing this forever. Nice to see them getting caught by
>> journalists.
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> Actually, the story I heard at the time of the DOJ investigation of
> Microsoft was that prior to that action, Microsoft had not bothered
> with lobbying. They certainly changed their policies after that,
> however. Also started destroying emails. Learned a lot of lessons.
Destroying E-mails does not make it ethical or innocent.
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| In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
| investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
| Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
| archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
| might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
| damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
| 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
| for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
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