Microsoft to WaMu administrators: Pay up

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there particularly as businesses and banks get jittery over the potential of seeing their hard earned dollars disappear. Microsoft wants to make sure it gets paid for products and services sold to WaMu, the largest bank to collapse in U.S. history. WaMu was one of Microsoft's showcase customers, as a beta tester and an early user of its products, according to this IDG News Service story. It was only last year when a WaMu exec joined Bill Gates on stage at a Microsoft product launch event. On Tuesday, Microsoft filed a document with the Delaware bankruptcy court handling the WaMu case. A Microsoft spokesperson said: "We have existing contracts for software licenses and consulting services with Washington Mutual and we want to make sure those contracts are properly administered through the bankruptcy process." Obviously no love has been lost.

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