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I helped my lawyers find an OCR (optical character recognition) program which converted the pictures into text. Then, we loaded all the documents into Google Desktop Search.

Unfortunately, the OCR tended to misread words once in a while. As a result, year 2004 often became year 7004, year 2005 was mixed up with 2006, and “Ballmer” usually turned into “Balder”. The Word documents that came out of the scanning process were full of such mistakes.

The mistakes slowed us down at first. But I soon came up with a simple solution – since the confusions were consistent and not frequent, to overcome the confusion between 2005 and 2006, we could simply search for both numbers when looking for my 2005 emails. This way we wouldn’t miss any important evidence.

While reading our search results, I was shocked to see an email from a former colleague at Microsoft Research China to a headquarters vice president. The email essentially said, “Congratulations! Your plan was brilliant. Chinese people value loyalty, and our PR team has successfully stigmatized Kai-Fu as a disloyal person.”

I also found myself betrayed by a manager I had mentored at Microsoft Research China for years. He said in an email to the headquarters, “We hope to get more resources from you in order for us to beat the founder of Microsoft Research Asia in China. Imagine what a big win that would be!”

I thought these two people were my friends! I would never expect them to risk their jobs by standing up for me against their employer. But how could they act happily to help Microsoft attack me despite all I had done for them?

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