In 1986, the firm formed Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which manages the majority of its mutual funds and hedge funds today. In the same year, the firm also underwrote the IPO of Microsoft, advised General Electric on its acquisition of RCA and joined the London and Tokyo stock exchanges. Blackstone's most notable corporate and mergers and acquisitions, advisory clients include Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Verizon, Comcast, Sony and AIG. "Lockhart was executive VP at Bozell Sawyer Miller, advising Microsoft and Coca-Cola" ZeroFacebook - Last Monday at 4:56 PM
8:58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92UwTfV9bQQ
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WeAreChange
What You Need To Know About Goldman Sach's AI, Quantum Computing, Super Collider X3 & Multiverses
19-25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRTiQda1Ecs
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lindsayblackstone
Blackstone & Cullen and Microsoft DDPS (Deployment Services)
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57-1:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olt4v6aey0s
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AP Archive
USA: WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY LOCKHART
Microsoft's revenue increased by $3.82 billion to $32.19 billion with a net income of $9993 billion
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Microsoft have been accused of fraudulent accounting in order to show profit
Microsoft have ownership of MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal
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The company has faced much controversy over the years as many have attributed their success to their illegal monopoly over operating systems which effectively pushes competition out of the market.
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1:28-1:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLKVeFau6vo
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toronto1234
Microsoft Monopoly
the finacial penalties they face are insignificant and they often pay their way out of any legal obligations to rectify this monopoly.
£254 million in oil companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Total who were being accused of causing health problems in Nigeria which, ironically, is another area of funding for the trust
24-28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuqLfH1SW98
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The Guardian
Oil spills in Nigeria: The true price of crude oil | Guardian Investigations
EXECUTIVES(edited)
Richard E. Belluzzo
Business
c. 1954 CEO of Quantum in Microsoft
Mark Penn
Government
5-Jan-1954 Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign strategist
Howard A. Schmidt
Government
? White House cybersecurity chief
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
Dina Dublon
Business
1953 CFO of JP Morgan Chase, 1998-2004
2-7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqG6v7KZ_s8
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Patriot News Organization
9/11 *RARE* CLEAR Video of WTC Building 7 Controlled Demolition
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Business
6-Mar-1941 CEO of Merck, 1994-2005
Maria M. Klawe
Educator
5-Jul-1951 President, Harvey Mudd College
Stephen J. Luczo
Business
c. 1957 CEO of Seagate, 1998-2004
David F. Marquardt
Business
c. 1951 Venture capital investor
Charles H. Noski
Business
c. 1951 CFO of Northrop Grumman, 2003-05
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John W. Thompson
Business
24-Apr-1949 Ex-CEO of Symante(edited)
PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
Reed Hastings
Business
8-Oct-1960 Founder and CEO of Netflix
Ann Dore McLaughlin
Government
16-Nov-1941 US Secretary of Labor, 1987-89
William G. Reed, Jr.
Business
c. 1939 Simpson Timber Company
Jon A. Shirley
Business
1938 President and COO of Microsoft, 1983-90
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
Ward Cunningham
Computer Programmer
26-May-1949 Wiki inventor
Michael Kinsley
Pundit
9-Mar-1951 Founding editor of Slate
EMPLOYMENT
Bruce Chizen
Business
1956 CEO of Adobe, 2000-07
Maria S. Eitel
Business
c. 1963 President of the Nike Foundation
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James Fallows
Journalist
2-Aug-1949 Atlantic Monthly
Bob Frankston
Computer Programmer
14-Jun-1949 Programmer of Visicalc
J. D. Lasica
Author
? Darknet
Scott A. McGregor
Business
c. 1957 CEO of Broadcom
Andy Rubin
Business
c. 1963 Creator of Android OS
Scott Stanzel
Government
15-Jan-1973 Deputy White House Press Secretary
for W ZeroFacebook - Last Tuesday at 3:42 AM
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Haley Barbour
Politician
22-Oct-1947 Governor of Mississippi, 2004-12
Rod Chandler
Politician
13-Jul-1942 Congressman from Washington, 1983-93
Greg Mankiw
Economist
3-Feb-1958 George W Bush economist
CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS
The Rock
Actor
2-May-1972 Yeah, yeah -- we smell it
Jerry Seinfeld
Comic
29-Apr-1954 A show about nothing
In 2011, Microsoft reported $69,943,000,000 in total revenues
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Microsoft is part of the Campaign to Fix the Debt as of February 2013.
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lash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem."
Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
5-19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_ldUlqZYc
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The Young Turks
Microsoft Leaves Conservative Advocacy Group ALEC
ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
Phone: 425-882-8080
Fax: 425-936-7329
It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible
Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer (PC) market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984.(edited)
in 2014, Microsoft admitted losing the majority of the overall operating system market to Android
Windows Server: The operating system for server computers. The latest version is Windows Server 2016. Unlike its clients sibling, it has adopted a strong naming scheme. The main competitor of this family is Linux.
Windows Server: The operating system for server computers. The latest version is Windows Server 2016. Unlike its clients sibling, it has adopted a strong naming scheme. The main competitor of this family is Linux.
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PC World considered Windows ME to be one of the worst operating systems Microsoft had ever released, and the 4th worst tech product of all time
Windows is the most-used operating system family for personal computers as of July 2017 with close to 90% usage share
a frequent target of computer worm and virus writers
3:28-3:41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWEd_c4RiBo
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danooct1
400th Video Special - Bumerang Windows Worm/Virus
1,000 new viruses and worms in the previous six months
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In 2005, Kaspersky Lab found around 11,000 malicious programs—viruses, Trojans, back-doors, and exploits written for Windows.
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Microsoft releases security patches through its Windows Update service approximately once a month (usually the second Tuesday of the month)
so 300 a month need patching- about 10 new worms/viruses a day
In versions of Windows after and including Windows 2000 SP3 and Windows XP, updates can be automatically downloaded and installed if the user selects to do so. As a result, Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, as well as Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003, were installed by users more quickly than it otherwise might have been
which means forced change-
57-1:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPFbAqICUJo
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Barnacules Nerdgasm
Windows 10 Creators Update Problems, Privacy Invasion & Petition for Change
Windows 9x series offered the option of having profiles for multiple users, they had no concept of access privileges, and did not allow concurrent access; and so were not true multi-user operating systems. In addition, they implemented only partial memory protection. They were accordingly widely criticised for lack of security.
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internetnews.com has described Microsoft Windows as having the "fewest number of patches and the shortest average patch development time of the five operating systems it monitored in the last six months of 2006."
October 2004, determined that 80% of Windows users were infected by at least one spyware/adware product.
5:27-5:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaoPODrS8xQ
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TechnologicalByte
[Malware Series] Infecting Windows 10 Anniversary Update!
Linux Unified Kernel – a set of patches to the Linux kernel allowing many Windows executable files in Linux (using Wine DLLs); and some Windows drivers to be used.
1:20-1:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_zrMcbaIAY
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Dave Bennett
Get Linux on Windows 10
Microsft Office is stupid bc business includes trade secrets and Office sucks
1:30-1:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg-gk5DULw
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ecommerceedward.com
F@#k You John B! Mircosoft Office 365 / OneDrive "Support" Sucks
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Starting with Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft has moved to a so-called "Modern Lifecycle Policy" that requires the consumer to stay current to stay supported.
Discontinued applications and features
Microsoft Binder: Incorporates several documents into one file and was originally designed as a container system for storing related documents in a single file. The complexity of use and learning curve led to little usage, and it was discontinued after Office XP.
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Microsoft FrontPage: a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool for Windows. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. FrontPage was discontinued in December 2006 and replaced by Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web.
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Microsoft InfoPath: Windows application for designing and distributing rich XML-based forms. Last version was included in Office 2013
Microsoft Mail: Mail client (in old versions of Office, later replaced by Microsoft Schedule Plus and subsequently Microsoft Outlook).
Microsoft Office Accounting
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer: a virtual printer that takes documents from Microsoft Office or any other application and prints them, or stores them in an image file as TIFF or Microsoft Document Imaging Format format. It was discontinued with Office 2010.[53]
Microsoft Office Document Imaging: an application that supports editing scanned documents. Discontinued with Office 2010.[53]
Microsoft Office Document Scanning: a scanning and OCR application. Discontinued with Office 2010.[53]
Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000: A graphics program that was first released as part of the Office 2000 Premium Edition. A later version for Windows XP compatibility was released, known as PhotoDraw 2000 Version 2. Microsoft discontinued the program in 2001.
Microsoft Photo Editor: Photo-editing/raster-graphics software in older Office versions up to Office XP. It was supplemented by Microsoft PhotoDraw in Office 2000 Premium edition.
Microsoft Schedule Plus: Released with Office 95. It featured a planner, to-do list, and contact information. Its functions were incorporated into Microsoft Outlook.
Microsoft Virtual PC: Included with Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2004 for Mac. Microsoft discontinued support for Virtual PC on the Mac in 2006 owing to new Macs possessing the same Intel architecture as Windows PCs.[54] It emulated a standard PC and its hardware.
Microsoft Vizact 2000: A program that "activated" documents using HTML, adding effects such as animation. It allows users to create dynamic documents for the Web. Development has ended due to unpopularity.
Microsoft Data Analyzer 2002: A business intelligence program for graphical visualization of data and its analysis.
Office Assistant, included since Office 97 (Windows) and Office 98 (Mac) as a part of Microsoft Agent technology, is a system that uses animated characters to offer context-sensitive suggestions to users and access to the help system. The Assistant is often dubbed "Clippy" or "Clippit", due to its default to a paper clip character, coded as
CLIPPIT.ACS. The latest versions that include the Office Assistant were Office 2003 (Windows) and Office 2004 (Mac).
Microsoft SharePoint Workspace (formerly known as Microsoft Office Groove): a proprietary peer-to-peer document collaboration software designed for teams with members who are regularly offline or who do not share the same network security clearance.
Microsoft SharePoint Designer: Initially a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool, Microsoft attempted to turn it into a specialized HTML editor for SharePoint sites, failed and discontinued it.
Microsoft Office InterConnect: business-relationship database available only in Japan
Microsoft Office Picture Manager: basic photo management software (similar to Google's Picasa or Adobe's Photoshop Elements), replaced Microsoft Photo Editor
Microsoft Entourage: An Outlook counterpart on macOS, Microsoft discontinued it in favor of extending the Outlook brand name.
discon server apps Microsoft Office Forms Server: Lets users use any browser to access and fill InfoPath forms. Office Forms Server is a standalone server installation of InfoPath Forms Services.
Microsoft Office Groove Server: Centrally managing all deployments of Microsoft Office Groove in the enterprise
Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server: Allows creation of a project portfolio, including workflows, hosted centrally
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server: Allows customers to monitor, analyze, and plan their business
Discontinued web services(edited)
Office Live
Office Live Small Business: Web hosting services and online collaboration tools for small businesses
Office Live Workspace: Online storage and collaboration service for documents, superseded by Office Online
Office Live Meeting: Web conferencing service
Microsoft Office has been criticized in the past for using proprietary file formats rather than open standards, which forces users who share data into adopting the same software platform
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Another point of criticism Microsoft Office has faced was the lack of support in its Mac versions for Unicode and Bi-directional text languages, notably Arabic and Hebrew. This issue, which had existed since the first release in 1989, was only addressed in the 2016 version
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Discontinued products
Microsoft AutoMap later became Microsoft MapPoint and Microsoft Streets & Trips. This can be confirmed by "AutoMap" registry entries installed by these products. Both were discontinued in 2014.
Microsoft Works was replaced by Office Starter 2010 which is available to OEMs for installation on new PCs only and does not include a replacement for the Works Database program. Office Starter 2010 was discontinued before Office 2013, which does not offer a similar edition, was released.
Microsoft Encarta and Microsoft Money were discontinued in 2009, and no replacement products have been announced or released.
Those ligature glyphs with Unicode codepoints may be inserted manually, but are not recognized by Word for what they are, breaking spell checking, while custom ligatures present in the font are not accessible at all. Since Word 2010, the program now has advanced typesetting features which can be enabled
9-20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aehbiJjsio
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WebPro Education
How To Insert Unicode Characters in Microsoft Word
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Version number 13 was skipped due to superstition
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2008-2010
Microsoft Corporation was accused of becoming a monopoly and engaging in anti-competitive practices contrary to the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act sections 1 and 2. It was initiated on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 states. Joel I. Klein was the lead prosecutor.
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Microsoft altered or manipulated its application programming interfaces (APIs) to favor Internet Explorer over third party web browsers, Microsoft's conduct in forming restrictive licensing agreements with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and Microsoft's intent in its course of conduct
Bill Gates was called "evasive and nonresponsive" by a source present at a session in which Gates was questioned on his deposition
Paul Maritz, a senior Microsoft vice president, as having stated an intention to "extinguish" and "smother" rival Netscape Communications Corporation and to "cut off Netscape's air supply" by giving away a clone of Netscape's flagship product for free
Brad Chase, a Microsoft vice president, verified the government's tape and conceded that Microsoft's own tape was falsified
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Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his findings of fact on November 5, 1999, which stated that Microsoft's dominance of the x86-based personal computer operating systems market constituted a monopoly, and that Microsoft had taken actions to crush threats to that monopoly, including Apple, Java, Netscape, Lotus Software, RealNetworks, Linux, and others
On June 7, 2000, the court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its "remedy". According to that judgment, Microsoft would have to be broken into two separate units, one to produce the operating system, and one to produce other software components
Microsoft says 40 percent of all VMs in Azure now are running Linux
A year ago, Microsoft officials said nearly a third of all the VMs on Azure were running Linux. Now it's 40 percent.
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"Lockhart was executive VP at Bozell Sawyer Miller, advising Microsoft and Coca-Cola"
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640 5th Avenue Lbby
New York, NY 10019
Hell's Kitchen, Midtown West
Phone number (212) 445-8000
Weber Shandwick (incorporated as CMGRPis a public relations firm formed in 2001[4] by merging the Weber Group (1987), Shandwick International (1974), and BSMG (2001)
WSW has been heavily criticized for its work for the Japanese Whaling Association
33-38 https://youtu.be/3vmSwRcbJQk
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National Self Reliance Association
Why are we Still Whaling
and its work for the New Zealand government-owned logging company Timberlands.
4:00-4:10 https://youtu.be/dr70qW65ZWA
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Shane Wood
Logging east coast new zealand (potikirua)
Ties to Pete Peterson's "Fix the Debt"
kill Social Security and Medicare
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lobbying for Olympics in China despite including jailing reporters and dissidents, occupying Tibet and supporting Sudan's repressive regime.
0-9 https://youtu.be/0TeapoQwyAw
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Wall Street Journal
China Arrests More Human-Rights Lawyers
In September 2004, O'Dwyers PR Daily reported that Weber Shandwick is "handling the 'greening' of ExxonMobil Corp. by promoting an alliance forged between the energy giant and Earth 911, a government/private sector entity with the motto of 'making every day Earth Day.'"
44-1:00 https://youtu.be/YLIbIdgrIaE
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bojo50
greenwashing
Earth 911's public service announcements will feature the Mobil 1 logo and the location of used motor oil collection sites.
Earth 911's corporate partners include Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, Aluminum Association of America and Vertex Energy, a company that recycles petroleum products.
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, the Dallas office of Weber Shandwick, one of world’s largest public relations agencies, mobilized a nationwide network of public relations professionals to assist the American Airlines corporate communications department.
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he campaign had been expected to focus on concerns raised by foot-and-mouth and mad cow disease in Europe. According to the PR trade newsletter, the Holmes Report, DMI's executive vice president of public and industry relations Jean Regalie said the campaign will be broader than that, taking a long term view of "the way people look at food." Dairy Management Inc. also has accounts with Golin/Harris International and BSMG Worldwide, creator of the ubiquitous "Got Milk?" campaign.
45-54 https://youtu.be/hrdA8vIxWOM
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Hannah Chloe
Why Milk Is Bad For You - in 90 seconds
1:40-2:00 https://youtu.be/Pxojz6grwcU
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SciShow
What Happened to Mad Cow Disease?
Also work for Carlyle Group
1:00-1:15 https://youtu.be/kWWL_TWaF78
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Donovon Ceaser
Spies for Hire, US pays Carlyle Group to spy-2/3
Behind Chase Manhattan Bank
Tie to building Number 7- with co-runners in Microsoft
Bernie Madoff
ExxonMobil
Ford Motor Company
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