You've heard about the A le bu le, right? The prevailing belief that A le's stock is overpriced and about to explode? Tur out there's definitely a Microsoft bu le, too. Different kind, though. One that surrounds Bill Gates in his day-to-day role at Microsoft.
Microsoft employs a technical a istant dedicated to deleting Mr. Gates' email. "It is a corporate policy not to make a permanent record of Bill's works...The job duties of the technical a istant require him to delete email files from Mr Gates' computer weekly." A arently this directive a eared after the recent US Government antitrust case, where many emails showed Microsoft's anticompetitive policy.
Still waiting to get to the A le punchline of this whole post? Tur out that in a (non-deleted) 2004 email, a senior executive told Gates that if he didn't work for Microsoft, he'd buy a Mac. Which shows that you really can find good people for senior management. It also makes you wonder how many deleted emails discu the preference for iPods over the Zune.
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