Catching up With Microsoft
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-08-01 18:57:56 UTC
- Modified: 2010-08-01 18:57:56 UTC
Summary: Steve Ballmer unrest and the Microsoft spy are just few among many items we'll cover this/next week
DUE to a variety of reasons (mainly vacation), we have fallen behind Microsoft news for 4 weeks. In the coming days we will make up for it by catching up with news as old as 4 weeks. We will try to avoid repetition and the goal is to cover all ground which needs to be covered. We finally caught up with GNU/Linux news a week ago and with Free/open source news a few days ago.
On the subject of Steve Ballmer we wrote in recent posts such as:
Ballmer has been pushed out by some angry investors for quite some time (
last year even, based on investors who contacted us). Here is some new coverage of interest:
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Report: Brewing Exec Revolt against Microsoft's Ballmer
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Are the knives out for Microsoft's Steve Ballmer?
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Are Microsoft Execs In Open Revolt?
To quote:
"But after 30 years, some of Ballmer's fellow execs are rising against him, says Peter Lauria at the Daily Beast, finding him to be the biggest misfit in a company of misfits."
Microsoft Nick is citing/quoting Rob Enderle to defend Ballmer.
Spy Case
We covered this before [
1,
2], but for future reference, here are more links about the subject.
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Reports: alleged 12th Russian spy worked at Microsoft
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Russian agent had job at Microsoft
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Redmond man with possible link to Russian spy ring deported
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Microsoft Says 12th Alleged Russian Spy Was Employee
Microsoft acknowledges:
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Microsoft Says Alleged Russian Spy Was Employee
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Russian spy worked for Microsoft
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Update: Russian Spy Worked at Microsoft
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No. 12 in Russian Spy Ring Worked at Microsoft
He
was a software tester, but
probably got no access to customers'/users' data.
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Microsoft: Deported Russian didn't compromise company's security
A Redmond, Wash., man who was deported to his native Russia on Tuesday as part of an investigation into a large spy ring didn't compromise company security in the nine months he worked for Microsoft as an entry-level software tester, a Microsoft spokesman said Wednesday.
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Russian spy works for Microsoft
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Microsoft Confirms Twelfth Spy Worked As Software Tester
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Microsoft entangled in Russian spy scandal
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Russian spy works for Microsoft
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Alleged Russian Spy Worked at Microsoft
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Microsoft's Russian Spy Was Greasy, Foreign, and Loved Snickers
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Russian Agent Alexey Karetnikov Had Job at Microsoft
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Suspected spy was Microsoft employee
It's a little out of date, but the next few posts will cover areas we have not explored yet.
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Comments
lightpriest
2010-08-01 21:12:27
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-08-01 21:36:31
"I heard some of the people working on Windows XP, were arrested, accused of working a terrorist organization and accused of trying to put in a back door. Now, this means, if you are using non-free software, you have be scared that the company, that is the developer put in a back door, and you also have to be scared that some developers secretly put in a back door, that even the company doesn't know about. The point is, that because you can't get the source code, study it and change it, you are helpless either way."
--Richard Stallman