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Wall Street Journal : U.S. probes M$ over bribery claims

Story: EU Commission fines Microsoft $731 million, but does it really matter?Total Replies: 5
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henke54

Mar 19, 2013
5:54 PM EDT
Quoting:Federal regulators are investigating Microsoft Corp.'s relationship with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign government officials in return for software contracts, according to people familiar with the matter.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732439280457836...
Scott_Ruecker

Mar 19, 2013
6:23 PM EDT 		http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/182623/index.html
gus3

Mar 19, 2013
6:31 PM EDT 		An LXer exclusive? (We should all be so lucky...)
tracyanne

Mar 19, 2013
7:01 PM EDT 		The wall street Journal article has an obnoxious audio that, I think repeats the text of the article and which on my phone I can't turn off'

jacog

Mar 20, 2013
9:14 AM EDT 		tracyanne - possibly intended for sight-impaired people.

When I read the headline I assumed it was Microsoft doing the alleged bribing, but the allegation is the other way round.
tracyanne

Mar 21, 2013
6:26 AM EDT 		As I'm not yet sight impaired, I chose to close the page rather than try reading it while someone read it to me.

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