[Bush2000]

Last time I checked, Bill Gates is an individual. Not a corporation. Try again. How much did MS contribute?

[N3WBI3]

Bill gates is an officer in Microsoft, he donates more one million dollars to a company that produces reports which are critical of the competition on the 386 server market..

This is in some way less importanrt than IBM giving some excess servers and a fraction of the money to an organization who gave webspace to an organization that (even after the donation) critized them.

lol wow the sky must be a different color in your wolrd..

[TechJunkYard]

Dude, you are so missing the point. If you don't care how many servers that IBM donated to ibiblio, I don't care how much MS donated to ADTI. It doesn't really matter.

Money changed hands. Both MS and ADTI admitted it. Now we know that Bill Gates is also a private contributor. So henceforth, pro-MS "studies" coming from ADTI will be considered "works for hire" and given the credibility they deserve. As in nil.

How many years has MS been doing this BS? It isn't working any more. Linux installations are up. Windows sales are flat. You'd better phone your buddy Steve and tell him to save his money for the next SCO bailout.