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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Microsoft STRIKES Again! -- 8:24 am CST, Update by The Master

Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional -- I know, I know. What am I doing linking The Register? Well, this story is unreal. Jamie Cansdale goes and writes an excellent debugging tool, which wins him an MVP award from M$. Then, a M$ exec starts threatening lawsuits over the same tool. Why? Because Cansdale made his tool work with Microsoft Visual Studio Express, which is a free tool. Since M$ ain't makin' money on Express, they're gonna crush the programmer who made a useful tool for it. How dare he. And yet, they gave him an MVP award. What?

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