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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: Reuters | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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A former Microsoft Corp. employee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling the world's largest software maker's products for more than $7 million for personal profit, federal prosecutors said. Finn Contini, 36, admitted to ordering software through Microsoft's internal systems under the pretense it was for internal use and using the money to buy real estate, cars and jewelry, the U.S. Attorney's office said. After similar incidents involving employees selling Microsoft's high-end software for personal gain, the company cracked down on criminal theft in late 2003. | ||
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| #1 By 12071 (203.173.35.189) at 1/28/2005 7:03:34 AM |
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#2 Wish is granted... (I was curious and you obviously can't manage to use Google)
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/200/300/allan_publishing/history_personal_computer/eBook13.pdf http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/computerhistory/articles/spreadsheets/lotus123review http://www.computerhope.com/history/198090.htm http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/book/sheets/sheet.html http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/comphist/comp1983.htm Operating Systems Digital Research released CP/M-86 for $175 to $240 in April 1982. IBM was charging $60 for MS-DOS at the time which later forced DR to lower their price (but it was too little, too late). Microsoft released Windows 1.0 for $100 in November 1985. Currently Microsoft is selling Windows XP for $199. (Note this is retail price just like all the prices above are retail prices so don't start complaining that you can find in on xxxxx for cheaper) http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/product.aspx?view=22&pcid=a9d2c448-eb05-4a2b-a062-9c711c533e0c&type=ovr Compilers Microsoft released a Pascal compiler for the IBM PC for $300 in April 1983. Borland released Turbo Pascal for $49.95 in November 1983. Borland released Turbo C for $99.95 in the late 80's. Currently Borland is still selling their C++ Builder 6 - Personal for $69 (which is not the latest version) and the Developer/Enterprise versions for $1000 and $1500 respectively. (Note this is retail price just like all the prices above are retail prices so don't start complaining that you can find in on xxxxx for cheaper) http://shop.borland.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry16?CID=0&SP=10024&PN=29&xid=39696&V1=30011514&V2=30011514&V3=1&V4=38&V5=0&S1=&S2=&S3=&S4=&S5=&DSP=0&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0 Microsoft is selling Visual C++ .NET for $109. (Note this is retail price just like all the prices above are retail prices so don't start complaining that you can find in on xxxxx for cheaper) http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/visualc/default.aspx Word Processors IBM and IUS released EasyWriter for $175 in August 1981. SSI released WordPerfect 3.0 for $500 and the personal edition for $200 in November 1983. Microsoft released Word 1.0 for $375 in November 1983. Currently Microsoft sells Word 2003 for $229. (Note this is retail price just like all the prices above are retail prices so don't start complaining that you can find in on xxxxx for cheaper) http://www.microsoft.com/Office/Excel/howtobuy/default.mspx Spreadsheets VisiCalc was released for $250 in 1979. Lotus 1-2-3 was released for $495 in 1983. Microsoft later released Excel for the Mac for $495 in 1985. Currently Microsoft sells Excel 2003 for $229. (Note this is retail price just like all the prices above are retail prices so don't start complaining that you can find in on xxxxx for cheaper) http://www.microsoft.com/Office/Excel/howtobuy/default.mspx But of course the average wage in the 80's is different to that today, but given that the overall computer market was remarkably smaller (think economies of scale) I don't think those prices are as huge as you make them out to be! |
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