Could this be true?? or the French are paranoid???
The name is 007Bill
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Saturday, February 19 10:10 AM SGT

US secret agents work at Microsoft claims French intelligence report

An intelligence report out of France has accused US secret agents of collaborating with computer giant Microsoft in developing
a software that would allow Washington to spy on communications around the world.

Drawn up by the intelligence arm of the French Defense Ministry, the Strategic Affairs Delegation (DAS), the report was
quoted the newsletter Le Monde du Renseignement (Intelligence World) on Friday.

The report claims that agents from the National Security Agency, NSA helped install secret programmes in Microsoft software
which is currently in use in no less than 90 percent of all computers.

The NSA protects communications for the US government, and also intercepts electronic messages for the Defence
Department and other US intelligence agencies, the newsletter said.

According to the report, "it would seem that the creation of Microsoft was largely supported, not least financially, by the NSA,
and that IBM was made to accept the (Microsoft) MS-DOS operating system by the same administration".

It also said that the Pentagon was Microsoft's biggest client in the world.