Microsoft told to explain e-mail deletion memos
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
A federal judge ordered Microsoft yesterday to search a company computer to help explain why Vice President James Allchin told employees in 2000 to eliminate e-mails. Motz told the company to search a legal department computer for any evidence that Microsoft lawyers advised Allchin and others to adopt a policy of scrapping e-mails. A written policy circulated in 1997 by company computer operators advised employees not to save e-mails for more than 30 days "due to legal issues."