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Microsoft cooks the books?
« on: May 30, 2002, 07:55:59 PM »
This snippet was just published on Yahoo News.

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

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Re: Microsoft cooks the books?
« Reply #1 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
 

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Re: Microsoft cooks the books?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2002, 05:45:30 AM »
Micro$loth ethical? HAH! Wintendo stable? HAH!
Someone has to state the obvious and that someone is me!