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Posted in Asia, Finance, Microsoft, Windows at 5:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
“As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.”
–Bill Gates
Summary: Microsoft is again pretending that it does not tolerate the very same practice it thrived in; Pequot-Microsoft story returns
Microsoft recently signed some deals [1, 2] in the UAE, which it had been exploiting for a long while [1, 2]. Dumping is a form of abuse, too.
These deals are not enough for Microsoft, which breaks down in (crocodile) tears and attacks partners, as usual.
=> breaks down in (crocodile) tears | ↺ attacks partners | as usual
Complaints filed by Microsoft Gulf led to raids on resellers in the UAE and the confiscation of pirated software, the company said.During the last month, five anti-piracy raids took place in Dubai and Sharjah and resulted in the confiscating of software CDs and personal computers and laptops loaded with pirated copies of Microsoft software.
A few days ago we explained why Microsoft is being extremely dishonest here. Speaking of dishonesty, the Pequot scandal is back in the news and it involves Microsoft. From Bloomberg:
=> why Microsoft is being extremely dishonest here | ↺ back in the news
The ex-Pequot Capital Management Inc. employee now at the center of a U.S. insider-trading probe told his therapist that the hedge-fund firm fired him in 2001 after he stopped delivering secret information on Microsoft Corp., the psychologist said in a deposition.
We also wrote about this in [1, 2]. █
“If they’re going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else”
–Jeff Raikes, former Microsoft Business Group president
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