Sinds gisteravond wordt er een spambericht verspreid waarin Steve Ballmer en Microsoft in een kwaad daglicht worden gesteld. De e-mail in kwestie bevat het onderwerp "BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft CEO Vows to "KILL" Google", en gaat in op een uitspraak van de CEO van Microsoft waarin hij zegt Google te zullen vermoorden. De e-mail, waarvan de auteur onbekend is, stelt de geadresseerde daarna de vragen of hij of zij de security en privacy van de computer toevertrouwt aan een bedrijf waarvan de CEO op deze manier reageert.

Daarna gaat de e-mail in op een uitspraak van Mike Lyman die toegeeft dat Microsoft de grootste spammer ter wereld is. Hieronder de volledige e-mail, waarvan we er inmiddels tientallen hebben ontvangen:

Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft CEO Vows to "KILL" Google

COURT DOCUMENTS:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Vowed to "KILL" Google

News Published: September 2, 2005, 1:07 PM PDT
Reprinted From CNET News.com - Written by Ina Fried

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work
for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday.

In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky, another Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November 2004, recounted Ballmer's angry reaction when
Lucovsky told Ballmer he was going to work for the search engine company.

"At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: 'Just tell me it's not Google,'"Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google.

"At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office," Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell.

ARTICLE AT:
http://news.com.com/Court+docs+Ballmer+vowed+to+kill+Google/2100-1014_3-5846243.html?

COMMENTED AT:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/09/03/0515250.shtml?tid=109&tid=217&tid=133&tid=123

ASK YOURSELF:
Do you trust a company with "your computer" security/privacy and support a company with a CEO that acts in this manner?

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MICROSOFT: Self-Admitted World's Largest & Greatest Spammer
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"I'm with one of the greatest, most hated institutional "spammers" around. We are a spamhouse. Doesn't matter that we're Microsoft. Our legitimate, unsolicited email is still just spam."
- Mike Lyman
- MICROSOFT HEAD EMAIL ABUSE ADMINISTRATOR

ABOVE STATEMENT ARCHIVED & COMMENTED ON AT:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?S1=spam-l&X=-
1. Under Search for type: "We are a spamhaus."
2. Under Search for type: "most hated institutional"

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" Businesses ought to be able to send unsolicited e-mail to people even if they are unsure if they have a pre-existing business relationship with them. "

- Ryan Hamlin
- MICROSOFT CHIEF COUNSEL - August 22nd, 2005

ABOVE STATEMENT ARCHIVED & COMMENTED ON AT:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3384447a28,00.html
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/08/22/1717258.shtml?tid=111&tid=109

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