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"All over the world the name of an American company, microsoft, appears on computer screens when people start up Windows to access the Internet. Does this not leave people in other countries with a sense of exclusion from this technology? Something may seem fundamentally unfair about the United States' hightech hegemony. How did microsoft attain such overwhelming dominance? Whether true or not, the company is often described as cutthroat and grasping. Why is the Internet dominated by the United States?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Just as Microsoft's Windows or Apple's Macintosh operating systems are the link between our computer's input and its electronics, consciousness is what bridges our input with the stuff everything is made of. It's a powerful analogy, and if our computers really mimic the way the universe works on a larger scale, it tells us two important things: 1. First, for all intents and purposes, the operating system of any computer is fixed. It doesn't change. In other words, it "is" what it is." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Microsoft was typical of start-up companies. The success of these cities was a local surprise that people could not have predicted with confidence. Hoyt himself was quite clear about the surprising growth of Chicago, for he noted, "The growth of Chicago in the nineteenth century has been paralleled by no other city of a million population or over in either ancient or modern times. ... It compressed within a single century the population growth of Paris for twenty centuries."19 Moreover, land prices are not a good proxy for home prices, which involve a structure as well as land." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "How did microsoft attain such overwhelming dominance? Whether true or not, the company is often described as cutthroat and grasping. Why is the Internet dominated by the United States? The World Wide Web was after all a European invention, developed in its initial form by a British and a Belgian scientist, working in a Swiss laboratory. We do not see their names when we start up our computers." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"We could use them as "TiVos"—the service that allows us to watch TV shows whenever we want—for our own lives, recording everything around us, including what people say and do, all for easy review. microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are among the companies already writing software to help manage this kind of abundant information. Done right, such tools would make it possible to never again forget a face, a name, or an important bit of information." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"At the end of the day, the gathering spectre of ideological oppression and global hegemony can only be challenged by people with a deter- 2 My microsoft spell check does not recognise this word and thinks it is in a foreign language. mination to build strong communities. Personal, everyday problems in the community should be the building blocks of democracy; they are, in effect, the reason for democracy. In this sense, the destruction of an individual life through adverse reactions to a pharmaceutical is at least as important as, if not more so than, the external threat of terrorism." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"That unusual organization at microsoft? which in essence is broken into many competing semi-independent units?contrasts with the organization at IBM, which until some years ago consisted of much more insulated groups and resulted in IBM's loss of competitive ability. Then IBM acquired a new chief executive officer who changed things drastically: IBM now has a more Microsoft-like organization, and I'm told that IBM's innovativeness has improved as a result. All of this suggests that we may be able to extract a general principle about group organization." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.) "For example, the success of microsoft has surely had something to do with the personal talents of Bill Gates. Even with a superior corporate organization, microsoft would not be successful with an ineffectual leader. Nevertheless, one can still ask: all other things being equal, or else in the long run, or else on the average, what form of organization of human groups is best? My comparison of the histories of China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe in the epilogue of GGS suggested an answer to this question as applied to technological innovation in whole countries." - Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Get the book.)

"In fact, every fragrance contains synthetic musks, ranging from the cheap- * LVMH stands for Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy and is to fragrance what microsoft is to computing, except that there is no Apple. f This applies far more to civet, which comes from the zibeth or civet cat and is definitely a smell with claws and a bad attitude. You know it's going to be trouble when you see it in perfumery labs, kept in a jar within a jar the way big cats are separated from zoo visitors by both a fence and a moat." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Founded by microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the project researched where each gene was activated in a mouse's brain because of its many similarities to human brains. They discovered that 80% of the 21,000 genes in a mouse body were activated in the brain, more than anyone expected. This is a possible indication of the mind-body connection and the placebo effect. Medically inactive pills, often called sugar pills, are used to simulate real medications during testing of new medications to determine if they're more effective than the placebo effect." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"Greed is not a corporate executive who builds an organization such as microsoft, creates a lot of jobs, and happens to get rich. Greed is to become CEO for a drug company such as Pfizer, be responsible for a stock price drop of close to 50 percent over a five-year tenure, twice as much as other companies in this industry,20 secure a $83 million retirement package21 while firing 16,385 Pharmacia and Pfizer employees,22 and get a 72 percent pay increase to $16.6 million as his reward in 2004." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"And European principles of fair competition grew stronger, as microsoft would discover four years later. REACH, Thery continued, "is the test case for us.""1 Europe is aware that the big conflicts today are over who writes the rules, the values that underlie them, and who listens. "Trade is not about a bunch of chickens and tomatoes," he said. "The big issues in the world now are questions of standards and regulations. This is now the huge debate. In Europe, there has always been this protest over American imperialism." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"He might even take a flier on the supposed next microsoft, hoping that if it doesn't bankrupt him, it will make him rich. When you make an investment, the last thing you want is a level playing field. If, as the SEC assumes, everyone actually has the same information to go on, investors' results would be completely random. They'd win sometimes and lose sometime, just as they would at a slot machine at Las Vegas where everyone faces the same odds. And since it costs money to play—the house has to make money somehow—over time they'd lose money." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Its holdings include not only microsoft, Intel, and Cisco, but also Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., based in Waterbury, Vermont. For several years, the company has been a leader in the effort to establish better social and environmental standards in the coffee growing industry. Visit them at www.greencentury.com Green banking is another way of putting your money where your mouth is. Green banking, said GreenMoney Journal, "is making major strides today across the United States." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The spellchecker I am using in a 2004 version of microsoft Word does not recognize it. The issue of the prestigious journal Science from which her quote is taken was a special issue in 2001 devoted to the new science of epigenetics. Epigenetics, referred to by Science as, "the study of heritable changes in gene function that occur without a change in the DNA sequence"33 examines the sources that control gene expression from outside the cell. It's a study of the signals that turn genes on and off. Some of those signals are chemical, others are electromagnetic." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Some heavy-hitting industry analysts are already predicting that the open-source Linux will pass microsoft Windows to become the most popular operating system on the planet by the end of the decade. Open-source software would, by itself, be an important tool, but the real revolution of open source is the model itself. All around the world, people are putting the principles of open collaboration to work on all manner of projects, which far transcend the world of software. What started as a way to make better and freer software is unfolding into a model for making a better and freer future." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"This ADHD-like behavior has also been described as "continuous partial attention" by Linda Stone, a former executive at Apple and microsoft. When she spoke at the Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego early in 2006, she (like the other speakers) was competing with the audience's use of e-mail, Web surfing, and text messaging. It was an eerie reflection of much of our society. Increasingly, people devote just a little attention to each of their multitasking activities, not giving full attention to any of them. I'll describe several examples of this odd behavior." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"Likewise, at the peak of the bubble market in tech stocks at the end of the 1990s, which investors who had made fortunes on microsoft and Amazon wondered if they needed more diversity in their portfolios? Surowiecki's book has missed the whole point. What he is describing as "wise crowds" are really the fluid, unfettered interactions between individuals in a civilized society. In many cities, for example, people drive around with hardly a traffic light or traffic cop anywhere, yet most get where they are going without accident." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"PCs in Every Cell Early in the 1980s Microsoft's founder Bill Gates surprised the world by declaring publicly his aim of equipping every family home of the future with its own personal computer. Few at that time realized that 540 million years previously, a far more impressive plan was being implemented by a still unidentified computer giant. This was the time that the first single-celled, mobile organisms appeared on the earth. One example of these, the amoeba-like Paramecium, is still around today, wending its way to and fro in freshwater ponds." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"Chapter 17 The YOU Toolbox handyman has tools, your mechanic has tools, and your microsoft programs have tools. No matter whether those tools come in the form of screwdrivers, hydraulic floor jacks, or spell-checkers, they are all designed for the same purpose: to help you reach some final goal. Same goes here. In our YOU Toolbox, you won't find the duct tape or Band-Aids to make the quick fixes; instead, you'll find the information that you can pull out when you need it to achieve your goal of a rich, vibrant one hundred years of life." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"The FTC will sue microsoft over monopoly practices involving your computer, but it won't investigate drug companies or the FDA over monopoly practices involving your health. Could it be that the corruption of Big Pharma goes so deep that no government agency or law enforcement office will dare touch it? Where is Eliot Ness when we need him? Actually, we do have our own modern Eliot. A man named Eliot Spitzer, the Attorney General of New York State." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"That edge was discovered with a jolt by microsoft, which was fined close to a billion dollars for violating European principles of fair competition in its marketing of computer software; by General Electric, which had its proposed merger with Honeywell blocked because of similar anticompetitiveness concerns; and by Philip Morris, which agreed to a one billion dollar fine to settle allegations of tobacco smuggling and evading taxes." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Early in the twenty-first century, the United States is no more like the America of 1776 than the Vatican under the Borgia popes was like Christianity at the time of the Last Supper, or microsoft in 2005 is like the company Bill Gates started in his garage. Still, while the institutions evolve, the ideas and theories about them tend to remain fixed; it is as if people hadn't noticed. In America, all the restraints, inhibitions, and modesty of the Old Republic have been blown away by the prevailing winds of the new empire." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"The leaked document would ultimately make its way into the EU Observer, the Economist-run publication that covers the EU in Brussels and ran a bemused item headlined: "Microsoft Scuppers U.S. REACH Lobby.") When I asked Ambassador Gray about the incident, he shrugged it off, saying, simply: "They sponsored the meeting. We wrote the press release." Three months after the AmCham EU incident, as the Environment Committee prepared for its final vote on REACH, the U.S. embassy sent out another e-mail." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"For years, microsoft claimed that using open-source software was among the great threats to civilization, because it allegedly leads to a breakdown of the patent-enforceability regime. To the surprise of many, though, it was then revealed by the Wall Street Journal that microsoft had been using open source in its own programs, despite unequivocal claims to the contrary.8 Thus, while microsoft was leading the charge for years against open source, it was using such software on one of its more frequently accessed sites.9 Why so much fuss about open source?" - Douglas Mulhall, Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World (Get the book.)

"One morning in my e-mail I discovered a leaked copy of the original draft, including the editorial changes made by microsoft tracking software as the press release made its way through various readers. Thirty-seven changes were made through the one-and-a-half-page document, each one initialed and dated. Most were minor deletions and additions, grammatical corrections and the like. But deletion number 1 was quite revealing. Deleted were an address, phone number, and fax. The address was 53 Avenue Arts et Loi, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium; that's the address of AmCham EU." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"The best and most recent example is, of course, US v. microsoft.20 The heart of the antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice and nineteen state attorneys general in 1998 was that Microsoft's deci sion to integrate its Web browser, Explorer, into its Windows 98 operating software system illegally excluded competitive browsers, such as rival Netscape's Navigator, and evidenced an intent to "monopolize" in violation of the Sherman Act." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"They had seen immense fortunes made by microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and the like. They even used Web-based businesses such as Google and eBay, and they assumed that some of the bright young dudes in black outfits and stylish eyeglasses behind the public offerings would be the next Bill Gates or Larry Ellison. Hundreds of other ventures were capitalized and geared up, and a stunning percentage of them failed. The diminishing returns of overinvestment had struck again. Entropy expressed itself in the form of mass delusion." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"But when was the last time you saw a newspaper headline or television newscast lauding microsoft because it sold fewer software programs? Or that stock in General Motors soared because it sold fewer cars? Or that the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged on word that General Electrics revenue would go down—not up? Nevertheless, that's exactly what an efficient health care system needs to provide a longer and better quality of life for everyone. This was the theory on which managed care through competition was sold. It didn't work." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) "It would be as if microsoft outsourced the design of its software to an ad agency. Consider Omnicom Group Inc., one of the world's largest communications firms, which provides advertising, marketing, and a host of other services to over five thousand clients in more than one hundred countries. Headquartered, appropriately, on Madison Avenue, Omnicom actually is a holding company whose subsidiaries include some of advertising's most illustrious names. Among them are two firms that created fifteen of the top 100 campaigns of the last century." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

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