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I live not far from Newham Borough in London, so I was interested to here that Microsoft and the Newham Council have signed a ten year agreement - worth at least £5m - making Microsoft the council’s software provider of choice, based on the strength of a CapGemini report.
I became even more intrigued when Microsoft attempted to stonewall the press about the report itself. CapGemini says of the data used to determine the cost savings by using Windows, which was supplied to them by Microsoft:

We have not independently validated these figures
But it’s even more amusing now that they are lying about the details of it, in print. On August 31, 2004 (The Newham saga started in 2002) Richard Steel, Newham’s director of information and communications technology told Forbes that “Microsoft cut prices to meet the Linux threat”.

So when a couple of days ago, Nick McGrath, Microsoft’s head of platform strategy told ZDNet, in response to a direct question as to whether or not they gave Newham a deal:

We did not change the pricing for Newham. The pricing was the same that everyone that buys through the Office of Government Commerce agreement pays.

So, who’s calling who a liar here?