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Title: Microsoft cooks the books?
Post by: anarchic_teapot on May 30, 2002, 07:55:59 PM

This snippet was just published on Yahoo News (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020530/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_report_dc_1).

It would appear that Microsoft may have been engaging in creative accounting, of the form known as 'profit-smoothing'...

Title: Re: Microsoft cooks the books?
Post by: GadgetMaster on May 31, 2002, 02:58:26 AM

They were also sued recently by the french authorities for using unlicenced code from a french company.

After all this they expect people not to pirate their software :-o

Title: Re: Microsoft cooks the books?
Post by: redrumloa on May 31, 2002, 05:45:30 AM

Micro$loth ethical? HAH! Wintendo stable? HAH!