Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa

Re:Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and ... by shapefrog on Friday April 14, 2023 @04:57AM (#35567153)

> be distributed among the parties in cahoots: the Microsoft employee(s) involved in the scheme, the partner, and the decision maker at the purchasing entity

Fraud.

> In the government had paid $5.5 million for Microsoft licenses for hardware they did not possess

Microsoft being paid for something doesnt sound like Microsoft bribing someone.

> Qatar’s Ministry of Education was paying $9.5 million annually over seven years for Microsoft Office

Microsoft being paid for something doesnt sound like Microsoft bribing someone.

I too have a Microsoft 365 subscription that keeps autorenewing that I never use.

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Re:Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and ... by justsomehnguy on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:42AM (#35567392)

> Fraud.

If the money passed through a 3rd-party which took the cut then it's not even a fraud, because it's up to the purchasing entity to use [or not] the discount. Like sure, it's an obvious collusion but from the point of law there is nothing wrong here.

> I too have a Microsoft 365 subscription that keeps autorenewing that I never use.

And this is the gist of most of OP woes.

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