Message to Microsoft Employees

E-mail from Microsoft employee ^ | 9-13-01 | Microsoft Execs

[B-Cause]

Below is a portion of the text of an email that has gone out to Microsoft employees from their management

In the days and weeks ahead, it’s important for Microsoft and for each of us individually to think about how we can help. As a company, Microsoft is today making a $10 million contribution to assist those who have been impacted by the tragedy. We are contributing $5 million in cash to the September 11 Fund, created by the United Way of New York City and The New York Community Trust. In addition to cash, we are also contributing people and expertise. We have committed up to $5 million in technical assistance, including Microsoft Consulting Services and software to assist in the recovery effort. We also are in contact with business customers who have been severely impacted by yesterday’s tragedy to see what we can do to assist them.

Our customers

Our US field teams and PSS have engaged with our customers in NYC and at the Pentagon and we are assisting them with their disaster recovery plans. We are assembling Response Teams to assist customers impacted by yesterday’s events to rebuild systems and get their businesses up and running. We will leverage resources from around the company to support these Response Teams. We are working to coordinate our efforts in this area and there is a defined process for how our field teams are rolling up requests for Response Team resources and a process, managed by PSS, for how we are fulfilling those requests for assistance. Kevin Johnson will be sending out more details to the US Sales, Marketing and Services organization shortly on these efforts.

[Lexington Green]

We need MS to enlist in the coming cyber-war

[Darheel]

Sungard and Comdisco are both on full alert in the Midwest out of Chicago and are handling the overflow from the Eastern division. Mainframe recoveries are being handled in a thorough, efficient, and professional manner. The IT industry is widespread and redundant, this act of war can only serve to motivate the recovery community to rise to our greatest challenge since Y2K. Although I cannot speak for everyone, we in the recovery field are dedicated to our duty and are working round the clock to help restore communications and computer systems. God bless all of you, and God bless America.

[Bush2000]

Where are other tech companies -- you know, the ones who lobbied the federal government to file suit against Microsoft: AOL, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Apple, etc?

[meta]

Yes, they created most of our vulnerability.

[isthisnickcool]

!!!!! MONDAY - BUY AMERICAN STOCKS !!!!!!

[TomServo]

Where are other tech companies -- you know, the ones who lobbied the federal government to file suit against Microsoft: AOL, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Apple, etc?

They're still having their diapers changed, B2K...

[Dutch Boy]

We need to put together a "Dirty Dozen" team of jailed expert hackers. If they can completely dismantle the terrorist financial organization give them a pardon.

[stars&bars]

Our local news is stating that Intel is also at this point donating $1 million and sending volunteers to help in the rescue effort.

[HAL9000]

FYI - Microsoft sells software to the Taliban.

www.taleban.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.

[tm22721]

Looks like Billy Gates has learned a few lessons about politics...

BUMP

[Bush2000]

FYI - Microsoft sells software to the Taliban.

Try following the link to http://www.taleban.com/, you loser. It's a dead link. Doesn't exist.

www.taliban.org is registered to the following:

Registrant:
Information Engine, Inc. (TALIBAN4-DOM)
59 Washington Street #141
Santa Clara, CA 95050
US

Domain Name: TALIBAN.ORG


Administrative Contact, Billing Contact:
Stiefel, Barry (BS3092) mail@BARRYSTIEFEL.COM
Stiefel
59 Washington Street, #141
Santa Clara, CA 95050
(408) 288-7545 (FAX) (000) 000-0000
Technical Contact:
BAIS Network Operations Center (BN56-ORG) noc@BAYAREA.NET
2333 Zanker Road
San Jose, CA 95131
US
(408) 545-0500
Fax- (408) 545-0549

That's a U.S. address, lightweight. For all you know, they went down to Circuit City or OfficeDepot and picked up a copy of Windows Server.

[Bush2000]

They're still having their diapers changed, B2K...

Maybe Larry Ellison can pay his hired PI thugs to dig through the Taliban's garbage instead of Microsoft's now.

[TomServo]

lol....

[janus]

They showed MicroSoft's flight simulator on TV tonight and it showed a jet flying across NY and crashing into the World Trade Center.

[Leroy S. Mort]

FYI - Microsoft sells software to the Taliban.

Microsoft sells its software to retailers, most of whom don't require a religious or ethnic litmus test from their customers prior to purchase.

What utter drivel.....

[Bush2000]

They showed MicroSoft's flight simulator on TV tonight and it showed a jet flying across NY and crashing into the World Trade Center.

Great, so you want to prosecute Microsoft for producing a flight sim?

[TomServo]

They showed MicroSoft's flight simulator on TV tonight and it showed a jet flying across NY and crashing into the World Trade Center.

So? I've done it, too. I also flew into the Sears Tower in Chicago. I've flown into the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Tonight while playing Falcon 4.0, I shot down my own tanker while flying an F-16. And while the crew was parachuting to safety, I riddled their canopys. Does this make me a trained pilot/kamikaze?

[ProudGOP]

Good grief. You want to cheap shot Microsoft now?

[SamAdams76]

FYI - Microsoft sells software to the Taliban.

Gee, thanks for the news flash. I bet the Taliban drinks lots of Coca-Cola too. Maybe they went to McDonalds every now and then. Or subscribe to The Wall Street Journal. Maybe some of them even surf Free Republic.