[Eug Wanker]

Windows development chief: 'I would buy a Mac if I didn't work for Microsoft'

I don't know what this has to do with the court case, but it definitely ain't good PR for MS nonetheless.

[Dakar²]

I'd love to hear the reply to that.

[Jawbone54]

Allchin, who has headed various aspects of Windows development since the mid-1990s but plans to retire at the end of this year with the shipping of Windows Vista, later wrote in the same e-mail that he would buy a Mac if he was not a Microsoft employee, according to transcripts from proceedings Thursday and Friday in the class-action case obtained and posted by Groklaw.net, an open-source legal Web site.

So does this mean he's getting a Mac after next spring?

[Eug Wanker]

I think Jobs should give him a Mac Book Pro when it comes out with Leopard installed.

[kmkkid]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

I'd love to hear the reply to that.

"I meant I would buy an Intel Mac, so I could boot Vista as the Primary OS."

[Chuckit]

I like the part later on where he's stringently insisting that employees delete all e-mail after 30 days.

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

I like the part later on where he's stringently insisting that employees delete all e-mail after 30 days.

Yeah...6 years ago.

[olePigeon]

I wonder if Allchin will be hired onto Apple's board of directors?

I think he might, but not for at least 5 years. I remember there geing a clause for Microsoft execs (became famous when that one guy left MS to work for Google) that says they can't work for a competing company until after 5 years... or something like that.

[moonmonkey]

Its a non competitive clause, standard for lots of companies.