Political Version Of Access Gets Less Microsoft Money
from the well,-now-that-that's-all-done dept
A very interesting look into the evolution of Microsoft's lobbying efforts. It was well known a decade ago (even half a decade ago) that Microsoft wasn't the best at lobbying DC. They liked to be left to themselves and focus on writing software and/or viciously crushing various competitors (depending on your point of view). Then, they realized that the government might pull out that old "anti-trust" card, and the money started pouring out of Redmond into DC. Of course, in the past couple of years, it seems that political contributions from Microsoft have been declining. It seems that all the important politicians they needed to buy off have done their job by making the anti-trust case meaningless.
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