<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Just to add to the complexity of the situation…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The fine is for activity that started before Nadella became CEO, last through some of his first year. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think Microsoft has changed in some fundamental ways, but not in ALL fundamental ways. This is also about activities in parts of the world where customery and usual business practices are different than they are in, say, the US and UK. I work for a US-based piece of a UK company that has operations all over the world, and we have to go through an annoying amount of training and lecturing about those business practices.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my experience, Microsoft was, and remains, a big international company, with all the good, bad, and maddening those labels imply.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Curt</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 23, 2019, at 11:45, VM Brasseur via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" class="">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">C'mon, Phil. You know better than this.<br class=""><br class="">All very large companies (and most small) have both bad and good pockets within them. It's possible and advisable to hold them accountable for the former while still lauding them for the latter.<br class=""><br class="">Painting the entire company with a single brush shows fault with the criticizer, not with the critiqued and wilfully ignores the complexity of the situation.<br class=""><br class="">--V<br class=""><br class="">On 7/22/19 4:01 PM, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><a href="https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/664290/microsoft-pays-us-25m-settle-anti-bribery-charges" class="">https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/664290/microsoft-pays-us-25m-settle-anti-bribery-charges</a><br class="">-- <br class="">--<br class="">Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com<br class="">http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html<br class="">http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro<br class="">http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html<br class="">"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br class="">"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br class="">"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options." David Suzuki<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">Ipg-smz mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Ipg-smz@netpress.org" class="">Ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br class="">http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>