“Has Microsoft been convicted?”

Not yet.

No, but it would be less efficient. Using M$ instead helps me reduce my contribution to their footprint on the web which is already too large. That reminds me. I should write more about GNU/Linux and less about M$…

Read US DOJ v M$ and Comes. M$ is an habitual criminal corporation. The record tells us that they will miss no opportunity to mess with competition despite the law. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that they will cheat on taxes. Other countries have already gone after them for such shenanigans. e.g. India where profits earned in India were “off-shored” in the same ways. It would not surprise me if M$ moved operations to an aircraft-carrier somewhere in Asia for the tax advantages…

Google Avoids Taxes, Uses Scheme That Costs U.S. $60 Billion

And why your democrats should occupy themselves only with Microsoft?

10 of the Biggest Corporate Tax Cheats In America

1. Google
5. Oracle
7. IBM
10. Microsoft

25 Corporations That Pay Less Taxes Than You Do

2. Google
12. Amazon
14. NVIDIA
16. Cisco
18. Microsoft
19. Oracle
20. IBM

Apple avoids billions in tax

2012 looks like a win for Obama, the Democrats and US taxpayers if they rein in M$’s abuses.

No, Obama and Democrats will never do it. Why?

Democratic National Cmte: Top Contributors (2012)

2. Microsoft Corp — $497,266
6. Google Inc — $423,851

Has Microsoft been convicted? No. What’s morally wrong in your opinion does not equate to being legally wrong. Feel free to write to Congress and plead to reform tax law.