Somehow we suspect that, if any of these companies makea run at Microsoft, they're going to facea reaction that makes Apple's successful defense of the Tiger brand against Tiger Direct look meek by comparison.
If there had been a general consensus on HP???s board that the leaker should be identified, the simplest approach would have been to ask all directors, again ata face-to-face meeting, to make their telephone and e-mail records available to a third party investigator.