Red-faced Microsoft admits snooping on blogger's email

John Leonard
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Microsoft looked at private emails to track down employee accused of leaking Windows 8 secrets

It has been revealed that Microsoft tracked down an employee accused of stealing lines of code from the Windows 8 operating system by accessing the Hotmail (now rebranded Outlook) account and chat ...

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