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re: Our Commitment to Compliance

Jeffrey Meisner — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:22:34 GMT

@Sales Rep Romania. We would like to learn as much as we can about the concerns you have raised so that we may appropriately review them. If you are a Microsoft employee, we trust that you are aware of the various means available to discuss or explain your concerns, including confidentially (to the extent permitted by law). I have listed some of our reporting and escalation tools below; I have also provided my contact information if you would like to contact me directly. We are also willing to explore other options with you to allow further dialogue to occur, including putting you or a representative for you in contact with our outside counsel (his contact information is below). We look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Thank you.

Greg Vamos

Assistant General Counsel

Office of Legal Compliance

Legal and Corporate Affairs Department

Microsoft Corporation

One Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052

T: +1 425 703 2716

gvamos@microsoft.com

Outside Counsel:

• Darryl S. Lew

White & Case LLP

701 Thirteenth Street, NW

Washington DC 20005-3807

dlew@whitecase.com

T: + 1 202 626 3674

F: + 1 202 639 9355

Other Resources:

• The Business Conduct Line at 1 (877) 320-MSFT (6738). If you are calling from outside the United States, you may make a collect call to the Business Conduct Line by accessing an international operator and asking to place a collect call to +1 (704) 540-0139. This phone line is operated by an external third-party vendor that has trained professionals to take calls, in confidence, and report concerns to the Microsoft Director of Compliance for appropriate action.

• The Microsoft Integrity Website, which allows for concerns to be submitted anonymously (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/compliance/buscond/integrity.aspx).

• The Business Conduct and Compliance <buscond@microsoft.com> and Anti-Corruption <anticpt@microsoft.com> aliases, which are internal email addresses for reporting compliance concerns.

• Communications by mail (to the Director of Compliance at Microsoft Corporation, Legal and Corporate Affairs, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052) or by fax (to (425) 708-7177).

re: Our Commitment to Compliance

meeta nata — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:29:00 GMT

My ok good.

re: Our Commitment to Compliance

Imperfect but still trying — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:35:30 GMT

No company can claim to be free of fools, but Microsoft can certainly prove consistent diligence in weeding them out. The avenues to seek redress are well-publicized and open to those who choose not to seek cheap and temporary satisfaction from an anonymous spiteful rant.

re: Our Commitment to Compliance

Sales Rep Singapore — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:13:15 GMT

@Sales Rep Romania: Hey Idiot! You sound like a willing participant. The choice of being ethical or unethical is yours. The choice of blowing the whistle on your managers is yours. That bloody mouth that you shoot off and the fingers that type are yours. Your bonus is yours and those feet that can quit and walk up to other companies are also yours. Microsoft, like any other organization in the world is made up of people (and apparently snivelling toads such as you) and is accountable for corrupt behaviour. To generalize and say that the whole company is corrupt is unfair.

re: Our Commitment to Compliance

Sales Rep Romania — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:11:56 GMT

I work in Microsoft Sales Romania. This is such a hypocrisy!!! “Do whatever you have to do to win this contract!!” This is what our managers told us in every occasion, especially with government contracts and the oil companies. And now they pretend they have some sort of values? This makes me sick. It was not about kickbacks but, rather, about serious bribes of 100s of thousand of euros funneled via subcontractors. Just investigate some of the subcontracts where Microsoft won (as a front – or “paravan” as we called it in Romanian) so we get market share expansion, but with no profit as we gave the contract to our “friend” subcontractors that, otherwise, could never have won those contracts (because they didn't have enough credentials - credentials which, BTW, are typically rigged in order to match unique features of Microsoft whether those are relevant or not). Then, in exchange for the "service", they were giving us kickbacks, out of which we give back to the government/oil industry via phantom consulting contracts. Bleah… IMO, all this is all right - just, please, and I mean, by God, please, don't act scandalized and surprised all of the sudden. It insults our intelligence.

re: Our Commitment to Compliance

BigAl — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:56:26 GMT

What a load of rubbish.

What about ISO and OOXML?

The stuffing of many of the national bodies,

The Microsoft executive, Doug Mahuhh, posing as Vice President of IASA Malaysia,

Ballot rigging,

Buying of those massive ISO voting bodies like Cote D'Ivory...

The list goes on.

Get real Microsoft

re: Our Commitment to Compliance

cc young — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:59:26 GMT

"As our company has grown and expanded around the world, one of the things that has been constant has been our commitment to the highest legal and ethical standards wherever we do business."

rofl

re: Our Commitment to Compliance

SPM — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:17:13 GMT

Hmmm.....it certainly is getting close to April's Fools Day.

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