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> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
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>>| Microsoft isn?t opening brick-and-mortar Microsoft stores. Instead, this
>>| holiday season, Microsoft will be hiring 150 or so Microsoft-trained
>>| ?Windows gurus? to work in retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help
>>| explain how Windows, Windows Live services and Windows Mobile PCs and
>>| devices work. The gurus will ?assist PC buyers, similar to the Nordstrom
>>| model of ?personal shoppers,? where the focus is more on informing and
>>| supporting the customer than on the actual sale,? according to Microsoft.
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>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1570
>
> More margin erosion for Microsoft.
They'll just shuffle some numbers and bring more buckets in (although they have
failed for the past couple of quarters when the stock tanked).
Whistleblower settles after Microsoft SEC fraud claim
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| He claimed to have been forced to resign in 1995 after reporting his
| suspicions about Microsoft bookkeeping to CFO Mike Brown and COO Bob Herbold.
|
| [...]
|
| But court records of the case show Pancerzewski had claimed he'd been ordered
| to destroy a consultant's report about potential tax liabilities in Europe,
| and that he'd found that Microsoft was controlling the level of reported
| income by switching money back and forth from reserves. Much simplified, this
| procedure involves putting money into reserves in good times, and
| transferring it back into reported income when times are hard. It's used to
| keep earnings apparently growing smoothly, and it is illegal, under SEC
| rules.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/01/09/whistleblower_settles_after_microsoft_sec/
"Microsoft Tax," MSN Enters the Black Hole, New Names for NT
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| The lawsuit, filed last year by Mukilteo City Councilman Charles
| Pancerzewski, alleges that he was forced to resign as Microsoft's general
| auditor in January 1996 after working for the company's internal auditing
| department for more than four years. The suit claims that a "significantly
| younger man" with little auditing experience was picked to replace
| Pancerzewski, who was finally forced out because he discovered Microsoft
| might have been violating government regulations. Once Pancerzewski left the
| company he was replaced by the younger man, who his attorneys believe
| was "less prone to raise issues of possible legal improprieties which could
| threaten or embarrass Microsoft or its management.
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http://www.msboycott.com/news/98_06_22.shtml
SEC Investigating Microsoft Practices -- Earnings Manipulated, Former Employee
Contends
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| "The CFO to whom Charlie was reporting his concerns about illegality was the
| biggest advocate for the very illegality that was going on," Vial argued in
| court a year ago.
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http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19990701&slug=2969514
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"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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