Cringely: Stupid Microsoft Tricks

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tjhanson writes “Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat.”

Presented with this charge in court, Microsoft’s attorneys acknowledged that the message gaps existed. The messages had been erased by the half-dozen Microsoft employees involved, both from their PCs and from the mail servers. There were no backup copies. The reason for this mass erasure, it was explained, is that Burst technology was unimpressive and not of interest to Microsoft, and the e-mails were simply not worth keeping.”

Link: pbs.org