tiffac said:
Bryank75 said:
How innocent...
The reason why MS have good financial results and has become the overblown behemoth it is, is because it has operated in a vacuum. A monopoly that they have operated for two and a half decades now.
They were brought to the supreme court by a collection of states in "USA vs Microsoft corp", here I provide a quote from Judge Jackson (the presiding judge)
"Microsoft's conduct itself was the cause of any "perceived bias"; Microsoft executives had, according to him, "proved, time and time again, to be inaccurate, misleading, evasive, and transparently false. ... Microsoft is a company with an institutional disdain for both the truth and for rules of law that lesser entities must respect. It is also a company whose senior management is not averse to offering specious testimony to support spurious defenses to claims of its wrongdoing."
Their corporate culture is a disgrace and anyone supporting their activities should question their own moral compass.
Mods... please note that all the above are facts, followed by a relatively natural point of view given the behaviour of the company in question.
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Wasn't that statement made during the time they were still under Gates and was considered the Evil Empire of tech?
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He is still on the board of directors and his forceful personality has left a lasting impact on the corp culture of the company and the way it does business. Who he hired, influenced types of people that were subsequently hired etc.
his title is founder and tech advisor, so this acquisition and similar strategic level moves could be directly influenced by him.
