[i]According to an FBI affidavit accompanying the complaint, the accusations stem from an ongoing investigation into current and former Microsoft employees selling high-end applications acquired illegally through the software giant's Internal Product Ordering (IPO) system.
Feussner, director of retrieval technology, was in charge of the search engines at Microsoft.com that are used by tens of millions of people per month, according to a biography he provided to the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club, which he joined this year. A Microsoft spokeswoman said Feussner was fired yesterday but declined to discuss specifics of the case or his employment history.[/i]
[ edited by sun818 on Dec 17, 2002 10:14 AM ]