More Microsoft Dirt

[Jonathan Hutchins]

** From ENTmag.com: Newspaper -- Microsoft Ran Slush Fund to Counter Linux
(Special to MCPmag.com)

Microsoft operated a slush fund to heavily discount or even give 
away Windows in cases where the software giant was about to lose 
large international deals to Linux, according to published reports.

The International Herald Tribune reported in Thursday's online 
edition that it obtained internal e-mails from Microsoft showing 
that Orlando Ayala, former group vice president for Worldwide Sales, 
Marketing and Services, created the fund called the "Education and 
Government Incentive Program." The fund was to be used to "tip the 
scales" in favor of Microsoft "only in deals we would lose 
otherwise," Ayala wrote in a July 16, 2002 memo. "Under NO 
circumstances lose against Linux," the newspaper reported Ayala's 
memo as saying.

Read more:
http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5813

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