Microsoft accused of destroying e-mails

[lovuian]

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Microsoft accused of destroying e-mails
Charges come in Burst lawsuit against software giantThe Associated Press
Updated: 8:21 p.m. ET Nov. 17, 2004BALTIMORE - Microsoft Corp. developed policies stressing the systematic destruction of internal e-mails and other documents crucial to lawsuits it has faced in recent years, a California software company alleges.


Burst.com, in court papers unsealed this week, also accuses Microsoft of destroying e-mails crucial to Burst's lawsuit against the software giant even after the trial judge ordered it to retain the documents.

Burst had previously claimed that Microsoft deleted e-mails it needed for evidence. But the unsealed 50-page motion, filed Oct. 29, provides new details, Burst says, of "institutional policies" by Microsoft "to make sure that incriminating documents disappeared."

WOW are they good or what!!! (sarcastic)

[Renew Deal]

1. Microsoft will be fined $10 million for contempt.

And it won't make a damn difference to MS.

[rooboy]

2. Why not use MS software so the emails go missing anyway? n/t

[struggle4progress]

6. "It was not contempt but just our shoddy software, yer onnah." eom

[whistle]

3. Yes, just purge those suckers and leave no trace. The Bushies...

...were actually doing this very same thing from the end of the first Kerry/Bush debate when Bush came across like a total Duffus. As for Microsoft, aren't they the Deibold of the PC operating system? I mean, can't they do anything they want and not be accountable? Like who wants their emails anyway and for what purpose? These are corporations suing corporations for intellectual rights and ownership. Just let them destroy their tracks and get these other wannabees to invent their own software that is totally new and innovative and leave Microsoft in the dust. Letting these folks got to court just delays innovation and creativity. Isn't that the neo-conservative point?

[daleo]

4. Microsoft destroys emails without even trying

Well, at my workplace anyway.

[billyoc]

5. Yeah, in M$'s defense,

they WERE using Exchange Server. :eyes: