Has anyone in this group read "The Microsoft File:The Secret Case Against Bill Gates?" Apparently, the author and publisher have released a detailed set of end notes, describing in more detail (without naming sources, of course) the sources used by the author. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/27/msfile1.idg/index.html I found the following particularly interesting: "The account of the discovery of the AARD code was based on extensive interviews with Andrew Schulman. Back in 1993, I had been tipped off by a source that Microsoft had planted sabotaging code inside of Windows to create the appearance of errors for rival products. I found it hard to believe that this could be true. Since I am not a programmer, I called technical expert Schulman, along with another programmer, to see if they could find this "sneaky" code, if it indeed existed. I told Schulman where to look for it, based on what my source had told me. Schulman also could not believe it possible that such code existed. I got a call back from Schulman a day or two later. He explained to me in detail what he had found. I first reported this in July 1993 -- but at the time did not yet have internal Microsoft documents, that also are presented in this book, that showed executives to be deliberately creating the sabotaging code as described on pages 102-104." "Schulman a month later published his own technical account of the strange code in Dr. Dobb's Journal, a computer publication, and also cited me in his subsequent articles as well as one of his technical books on Windows as being the reporter who had alerted him to the code. Further reporting eventually led me to the actual internal Microsoft documents (see pages 88-90), which confirmed that Microsoft had intentionally programmed this code in an effort to damage competitors. (This information now is also at the heart of the private antitrust lawsuit filed by Caldera Inc. against Microsoft. )"
