James Allchin, the longtime Windows development Chief wrote an email a couple of years ago to Steve Ballmer (Microsoft's CEO) and Bill Gates. He wrote "that the software vendor had “lost sight” of customers’ needs and said he would buy a Mac if he wasn’t working for Microsoft. "
Ouch. This is the guy who's in charge of developing the next Windows operating system, Vista!
The email was presented as evidence in an antitrust trail where Microsoft overcharged the state of Iowa for computer software. A lot of the evidence in these trials is the email archive of Microsoft executives, including Allchin, who advised his own employees to not keep any email past 30 days.
Another interesting tidbit is the job description for Bill Gates’ personal technical assistant, whose primary duty was to make sure no permanent record of Gates’ e-mail existed. Nice.
Oh, and good luck with that Zune thing.
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