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Stupid Microsoft Tricks Why the Richest Company on Earth Feels it Needs to Cheat By Robert X. Cringely
Combine this with previous info on the EU requiring that Windows Media Player 9 be unbundled from Windows and you have the making of a fierce turf battle for online media delivery, Real and Quicktime suddenly become much more relevant. (See Stream on How Microsoft, on the Brink of Defeat, Could Still Win the Streaming Video War By Robert X. cringely for additional details)

Cringley Says:

"Microsoft handed over the e-mail messages on a disk, and when Burst's lawyers had printed all the messages they filled 140 boxes. That's a lot of messages, but not surprising for Microsoft, where the business culture of the company literally happens on e-mail.

When Burst's lawyers put the messages in order by date and time, they claim to have noticed a peculiar phenomenon. There were literally no messages from approximately one week before until about a month after all seven meetings between the two companies. This meant that either Microsoft completely suspended its corporate e-mail culture for an aggregate period of 35 weeks, or there were messages that had been sent and received at Microsoft, but not divulged to Burst."

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A fancy San Francisco law firm has taken the Burst v. Microsoft case on contingency. That’s huge. It means they think the case is a winner. Before it dissolved, the legendary Silicon Valley law firm of Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison was also involved.

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