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Ärende: James Alchin "I' would buy a Mac if I didn't work for Microsoft"
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com>

Maybe Gates should give  James Alchin a Mac as a present when he retires this
year.

Bill Gates has his own personal e-mail destroyer flunky? What happened to the
delete key?

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&article
Id=9005873&intsrc=hm_list


December 11, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Longtime Windows development chief James
Allchin wrote in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and
company co-founder Bill Gates that the software vendor had "lost sight" of
customers' needs and said he would buy a Mac if he wasn't working for
Microsoft.

"In my view, we lost our way," Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft's
platform and services division, wrote in an e-mail dated Jan. 7, 2004. The
e-mail was presented as evidence late last week in the Iowa antitrust trial,
Comes v. Microsoft Corp.

"I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means,
what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how
important current applications are, and really understanding what the most
important problems our customers face are. I see lots of random features and
some great vision, but that does not translate into great products."

Allchin, who has headed various aspects of Windows development since the
mid-1990s but plans to retire at the end of this year with the shipping of
Windows Vista, later wrote in the same e-mail that he would buy a Mac if he was
not a Microsoft employee, according to transcripts from proceedings Thursday
and Friday in the class-action case obtained and posted by Groklaw.net, an
open-source legal Web site.

Jim Hibbs, a spokesman for Wixted Pope Nora Thompson & Associates, a Des Moines
public relations firm employed by the law firm prosecuting the case, confirmed
that Allchin's quotes were read directly from his e-mails by the plaintiffs'
lawyers.

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Conlin also presented evidence of a job description for Bill Gates' technical
assistant, whose primary duty was to make sure no permanent record of Gates'
e-mail existed, Conlin said, according to transcripts.

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