to think globally and explore ways to improve our customer reach.

In the last few weeks, we have received some clarity from the commission and the monitoring trustee that has been very helpful.

committed to putting whatever resources are necessary towards completing this project.

And as such, we decided to post our response so people can understand the issues at stake in the case.

We will continue to have the majority of our core development work in the United States.

At issue are whether companies can improve their products by developing new features, and whether a successful company must hand over its valuable intellectual property to competitors.

We are growing our work force there and will continue to do so; however, that growth has not and will not replace jobs here in Redmond.

The writing is clearly on the wall for these actions, and we will not be pursuing them any further.

This was only a draft description that we sent to device manufacturers for the purpose of getting feedback. Our legal team reviewed the description and promptly revised it.

We wouldn’t allow something like this to be implemented in the marketplace.

Our investigation has shown that this was not a result of any breach of our corporate network or internal security.

We certainly do work with a number of vendor companies in China that support our work force here in Redmond. We do from time to time transfer projects to vendors, such as testing, in order...

We will transfer projects such as testing to places like China and India in order to allow our teams (in Redmond) to work on other projects.

All we want from Lindows.com is just that they change their name, … Nobody at Microsoft is saying that he shouldn’t go out and build a better mousetrap…. He just shouldn’t call it the same...

Bill Gates adamantly denies ever making such a comment, … This is just another attempt to deflect interest from the real issues in this case.