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Global Law Firm Uses Search Solution to Improve Access to Information

Tired of getting irrelevant search results, many employees at Covington & Burling LLP did not use the firm's legacy search solution to find information on the firm's intranet. As a result, the global law firm's 650 lawyers and their support staff couldn't take advantage of information resources, which could have...

Tags: Microsoft Access, Covington & Burling, Microsoft Corp., Information Resource, Search Solution, Litigation, Search, Cloud Computing, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-07-01

Former Siemens exec arrested in bribery probe

Former Siemens exec arrested in bribery probeFormer Siemens exec arrested in bribery probeSiemens always had dirty business practices. I don't trust them and you couldn't pay me enough to work for them. In fact I turned down a job with them due to them having no ethics.Microsoft's Brad...

Tags: Covington & Burling, Microsoft Corp., Siemens AG, bribery, Neukom

Discussion threads 2006-12-13

Additional Resources

Microsoft claims it is not party to patent claims against Linux

Contrary to speculation, Microsoft is not behind the patent litigation filed against Linux distributors last week, the company insists. "Microsoft is not a party to Acacia's lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell, nor are we involved in any way in this litigation," according to an official statement...

Tags: Patent, Microsoft Corp., Coincidence, Brunell, Litigation, Linux, Open Source, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-10-17

EU: Microsoft compliance deadline a week away

EU: Microsoft compliance deadline a week awayWell, if so, it's just a counterbalance to the ABM zealots.And their whining that you're a 'tard if you use a product produced by Microsoft.Mostly right.But Microsoft did have documentation for aspects of their software that a business of Microsoft's size might be expected...

Tags: commission, compliance, Microsoft Corp., API

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It's a mistake to floss us

Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It's a mistake to floss usThanks for the silver bullet...]:)Intelligent and Elegantshills . . .and the losers lobbying EU, thats considered fairIts pretty evident the business tactics used by IBM. SUN the other big loser who cant compete along with Symantec and McAfee, Adobe (who...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Abramoff, FLOSS, Brad Smith

Discussion threads 2006-10-19

HP warned on leak probe's legality

HP warned on leak probe's legalityWilson Sonsini , Practitoner of slease? or anti-Christ to Microsoft"Jack Abramoff was an exuberant practitioner of sleaze," said White House press secretary Tony Snow. "If he was telling people that he was getting results, from emailing federal contacts they were getting ripped off." But client...

Tags: Social Security, Business ethics, Operational accounting, Corporate law, Corporate governance, Leadership, Sonsini, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Bill Neukom

Discussion threads 2006-10-02

An end run round copyright laws?

An end run round copyright laws?Road Ahead = From Read Only to Read Write CultureLessing hits a home run with his comments. But the lawyers, lobiests and polititions most resposible for the read only do not speak up culture are powerful. You can identify them from the Microsoft Antitrust case....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Lessing, Creative Commons License, GPL, copyright law, potato chip, read only

Discussion threads 2006-08-15

Microsoft vows to play fair

Microsoft vows to play fairRight, they will NOT use any proprietary APIs or protocols? They have avery liberal view of "play fair".A shame they didn't do this a long time agoThey could have still made plenty of money without the need to have everything and crush anyone that got in...

Tags: April Fool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-07-19