Allchin: If I didn’t work here, I’d buy a Mac | News.blog | CNET News.com
If there’s one rule you’d think would be drilled into executives’ heads, it would be this: Don’t say anything in e-mail you don’t want seen publicly. That advice is being driven home for retiring Microsoft exec Jim Allchin. Groklaw has reported that an Iowa lawsuit turned up a 2004 memo of his sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, in which Allchin states that “Microsoft had lost sight of what customers need and that he himself would buy a Mac, if he didn’t work for Microsoft.

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