Confidential Microsoft Emails Posted Online

Confidential Microsoft Emails Posted Online 479

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:10PM from the behind-the-curtain dept.

dos4who writes "From the class action 'Comes et al. v. Microsoft' suit, some very enlightening internal Microsoft emails are now made public. Emails to and from Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Jim Allchin, etc all make for some mind blowing reading. One of my favorites is from Jim Allchin to Bill Gates, entitled 'losing our way,' in which Allchin states 'I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.'"

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2001 (Score:5, Funny)

by DarkOx ( 621550 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:13PM (#17873668) Journal

called they want their Halloween documents back!

Email (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:16PM (#17873694)

If only they had used lycos for their email.

In communist Russia... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:17PM (#17873704)

In communist Russia, the Mac would buy Allchin today if it weren't working for Microsoft.

Re:It just goes to say that (Score:5, Funny)

by EveryNickIsTaken ( 1054794 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:20PM (#17873732)

You clearly do not read /. often.

Could this explain... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:26PM (#17873784)

...why Jim Gray went missing? Possibly that buried within one of the emails is the cryptic line "J. must GO! Do what ever it takes!"
Stay tuned!

Re:Non-PDF? (Score:4, Funny)

by JudicatorX ( 455442 ) writes: <rernst@shado[ ]fe.ca ['wli' in gap]> on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:33PM (#17873846) Homepage Journal

Most of those email are plain-text. Is it really necessary to pdf them? Why don't they print them out, then take a picture of the printout on a wooden table, and post *that* to the web.

Re:In communist Russia... (Score:4, Funny)

by russ1337 ( 938915 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:34PM (#17873850)

I think I speak for all of us when I say you need to work on your Soviet-Russia jokes....

Re:Non-PDF? (Score:5, Funny)

by nacturation ( 646836 ) writes: <nacturation&gmail,com> on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:37PM (#17873874) Journal

Can anyone find any non-PDF versions of these? I don't allow PDF's in my biz...
Yet you apparently allow Slashdot. Excellent policy.

Re:In communist Russia... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:39PM (#17873886)

"you need to work on your Soviet-Russia jokes...."

No. Please don't.

Re:One of my favorites (Score:2, Funny)

by Jugalator ( 259273 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:49PM (#17873970) Journal

Hmm, looks like some material here to post for new articles on Wikiquote [wikiquote.org]! :-)

Re:Non-PDF? (Score:4, Funny)

by -kertrats- ( 718219 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:53PM (#17873994) Journal

When he said...

If it's just a matter of hating Adobe Reader, there are free open-source alternatives out there.

What did you hear?

Re:/. bias (Score:5, Funny)

by DogDude ( 805747 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:54PM (#17874000)

Actually, that comment is indicative of a well run business. They identified problems with their own products, they identified their competitors' strengths, and they moved to address those issues. Realizations like that are part of the reason that they're the #1 software company on the planet.

I don't know why (Score:4, Funny)

by Omeger ( 939765 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @12:56PM (#17874030) Journal

They would want to buy a Mac. You can do a LOT more things a LOT cheaper on a normal PC.

What I don't get (Score:5, Funny)

by mrfantasy ( 63690 ) writes: <mike&chairthrower,org> on Saturday February 03, 2007 @01:23PM (#17874236) Homepage Journal

Is Jim Allchin.

I mean, his chin isn't particulary prominent at all.

Allchin...? (Score:5, Funny)

by tanveer1979 ( 530624 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @01:32PM (#17874316) Homepage Journal

Jim Allchin, is that you?! Never knew you hung out here too

Re:2001 (Score:4, Funny)

by ettlz ( 639203 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @01:35PM (#17874332) Journal

"Offtopic"?! It's like that Robot Chicken sketch: Dicks — with mod points!

Hold on... (Score:2, Funny)

by deesine ( 722173 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @02:03PM (#17874564)

I didn't see where Kevin Bacon figures in?

Re:Losing our way? (Score:4, Funny)

by $RANDOMLUSER ( 804576 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @02:35PM (#17874828)

MS-DOS used ^Z for EOF, like VMS. That's also where they got the forward slash for command line arguments.
try:
COPY NUL: C:\COMMAND.COM

Re:broken legal system (Score:4, Funny)

by MindStalker ( 22827 ) writes: <mindstalker@nosPam.gmail.com> on Saturday February 03, 2007 @02:55PM (#17874972) Journal

Sorry, typo. Obviously I meant to say Your troll is using your computer.

Re:In communist Russia... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @04:12PM (#17875684)

In Soviet Russia, the pejoratives expend energy atop the second person pronoun.

Re:Confidential email (Score:3, Funny)

by arthurpaliden ( 939626 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @06:43PM (#17876884)

You must be mad...programmers don't play golf, or any other sport the exposes one to sunshine.

Re:They are the one's laughing.... (Score:3, Funny)

by pallmall1 ( 882819 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @08:17PM (#17877484)

Apple and Microsoft had roughly the same profit last quarter, but Microsoft required 10x the revenue to make as much as Apple, Inc.
That's because Microsoft uses Microsoft software.

Re:They are the one's laughing.... (Score:3, Funny)

by Senzei ( 791599 ) writes: on Saturday February 03, 2007 @09:02PM (#17877710)

I've made web apps in .NET. It might be the killer app if you're job is server administration, but it's murder on developers.
See, killer app. Hey, at least Microsoft isn't trying to redefine the term "killer" like everyone else seems to want to.

Re:Uhm, Whatever, Jim (Score:3, Funny)

by adrianmonk ( 890071 ) writes: on Sunday February 04, 2007 @12:52AM (#17878874)

It's an evocative way of saying "right now, Mac is better than what we're offering."

It's an attention-getting way of phrasing things. Sort of like that scene in Men in Black where Will Smith has figured out a critically important piece of information, and he keeps trying to tell everyone but nobody will listen, so eventually he just loudly yells out, "YO, OLD GUYS!".

In case you're wondering, I don't really have anything to contribute. I just really like that scene.

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Allchin...? (Score:5, Funny)

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Hold on... (Score:2, Funny)

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