Document: What a Microsoft employment contract looks like

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 1, 2011

“Sitting in court this week for a hearing in Microsoft’s lawsuit
against a former general manager hired by Salesforce.com, I
listened to lawyers and the judge quoting from a standard Microsoft
employment agreement. And suddenly it dawned on me that, in all my
years covering the company, I had never actually seen one.

“Of course, as the central document at issue in the case, it’s
part of the public record — Exhibit A, in fact. This will be
familiar to people who work or have worked at the company, but for
anyone else who might be interested, here it is, for the
record.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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