Barely two hours ago I gave you the news that a Washington judge had ruled that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee was allowed to work at Google, who had poached him from Microsoft, during the pendency of a lawsuit filed by Microsoft against both Google and Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. At that time Microsoft issued a press statement declaring a victory in the preliminary ruling, despite the fact that the Judge had ruled that Kai-Fu could work at Google, and had expressly stated that “Microsoft has not sufficiently shown that it has a clear legal or equitable right to enjoin Dr. Lee, pending trial, from establishing and staffing a Google development facility in China.”

With the ink on that press statement barely dry, Microsoft has now revised that press statement, to include and issue the following challenge to Google, the new subtitle of which is “Microsoft offers to make today’s injunction permanent.”

Here is the new added text of the statement, which amounts to a call-out to Google:

Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith added, “We can settle this lawsuit tomorrow if Google will agree…

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