History of Malco

PowerTech (formerly Malco, still used as the secondary name until it will launch) is MinderiaYouTuber's iteration of Mic Redux, taking place from 1 AD to 1871, when computing didn't exist yet. Currently, the company is in a revival/renaissance phase, which it plans to reopen originally on March 7, 2024, but the company postponed it to an undetermined date due to delays. This is the successor to Oggosoft.
== History ==
In the year 1 AD, a coastal tribe in Washington began thinking about the potential of technology. That year, five friends in that coastal tribe (Condelecus Prostarious, Stanvilington Andilt, Timonatie Ballura, Fisella Dronkunis, Gilberta Fedre, and Wiflod Leninnington) created the company Old-Yen-Malco, later renamed in short as Malco. By 8 AD, the company was getting its hands on ordenadors (the precursor to the computer). This would evolve from a demo to an actual stone computer in 78 AD.
The computer Malco Super/1 was released that year and was bundled with a system called SYNM DOS. The Malco Super/2 came out in 120 AD and was almost better in every way. The computers at the time were decent enough for their time, and by 168 AD, the company had spread to areas that would become Oregon and California.
=== Growth ===
The company had very exponential growth throughout the 170s. They were going to expand to other countries, but mostly didn't do much besides have them in the planning stages. Regardless, they were doing numbers in their reign in the United States, even during the Colonial Era.
Their fame began expanding more in the 1770s. It was now fully grown to be a big old tree that had power to rein in what would've seemed like a never-ending game of keepy-uppy.
===Financing===
Their financing was done in a sort of interval style; in the simplest explanation, they utilized a combination of both short-term and long-term funding methods. This allowed them to manage their cash flow effectively and make strategic investments while also ensuring stability in the long run. This only applied for 935 years.
When the year 936 A.D. came, their financing was done in a sort of block style; in the simplest explanation, they shifted to solely relying on long-term funding methods. This change in approach allowed them to focus on long-term growth and expansion, as they no longer needed to worry about short-term cash flow management.
===Management===
The company had no senior executives or major investors with any management experience in the industry, including its various CEOs. By the 190s–450s, the company had $4 million in income a year. And by the 500s to 940s, the company had $375,000 in income a year. This dropped to only a few hundred dollars of income a year due to poor management skills.
===Bankruptcy===
Malco had many financial low points in its history. In July 58 AD, the company faced a Canadian takeover attack, but they recovered by 61 AD. In 81 AD, the company had low pockets and was close to going bankrupt, but they recovered with boosted sales of the Malco Super/1 in 84 AD.
In 189 AD, the company faced another targeted attack from Mexico, but they recovered from this by the following year (190 AD). In 468 AD, the company faced issues with reduced salaries for vice presidents and directors, having salary increases freeze for a year, and having 30 out of the 61 employees laid off. These issues would be resolved by 469 AD. In June 950 AD, the company had some employees move from the USA to the Bahamas so they could form a new company. These plans would be quickly closed off by July 950 AD, and the employees would be moved back to the USA.
Following the release of Vindaugus 1000, Malco had a bumpy economy. In 1351, the company received complaints from consumers about the Malcondria Class' poorer performance on running Vindaugus You, and they addressed these issues by saying that the system wasn't ready to launch when the Malcondria Class released it and refunded people with machines running Vindaugus You in favor of machines that ran Wale DOS. Revised versions of the Malcondria Class with Vindaugus You would then be fully launched by 1353.
In 1415, the company announced their 1430s plan, which had consumers primarily taking 58% of Malco's concern. People were enraged and demanded that Malco stop the plan soon, which the company did in 1421. In 1511, the company faced a takeover from Cuba, but they stopped Cuba from taking over the company in 1513. In 1546, the company was facing stagnant economic issues. These issues wouldn't be resolved until 1559, with boosted sales of the Malcondria Class Color.
In 1593, the company faced declining interest from numerous manufacturing outlets. These issues, which were present at that moment, would not be resolved until 1602. In 1619, the company boycotted their plans to release the successor to the Malcondria BC 800, sparking anti-Malco hysteria. These issues were resolved in 1624. In the 1700s, the company faced near acquisition from a Russian company called Aитнов и одерс о. (or roughly translated Aitnov and Oders about), but these were avoided by April 1723. By the beginning of 1800, the company had a few thousand dollars remaining in their pockets and had 790 employees.
By the halfway mark of the 19th Century, the company was just on its last legs, and on September 5, 1871, the company officially called in for bankruptcy, ending Malco's 1870-year existence.
===Restore and comeback===
Before March 2023, people were demanding a Malco return with hints and clues; one of the most important hints is in 2015 April Fools, where Kimberly Jaber tweeted "It's a malfunction computer!", If you take the shorter name, it is mal-co. Even though it's an April Fools joke, people from around this time put this tweet up as a hint to a comeback of Malco, even today. This was until, on July 20, 2023, PowerOS former secondary CEO, Ernest Reyes, created a plan called "The Malco Restoration Plan", in which PowerOS would restore Malco. The plan, when it was announced, was called "The PowerOS Modernization Plan," which is to modernize PowerOS. This plan lasted until August 2023, and on August 4, 2023, PowerOS completed the Malco Restoration Plan.
On August 9, 2023, PowerOS announced that Malco would comeback on March 7, 2024. The trailer they posted was accompanied by the song "Ready for the Ride," sung by Oh, Hush! and Jeff Lewis for Disneyland Paris' 30th anniversary.
On August 18, 2023, they failed the Malco comeback due to the straw that broke the camel's back, and at 4 p.m., the Tucson campus was announced to be closed by August 21, 2023.
On August 19, 2023, Mic Redux and PowerOS announced that Malco would come back on March 7, 2024, but as a separate company.
On August 22, 2023, all of PowerOS' stuff except Sean's monument was moved to the newly-built Malco headquarters in Believue, Washington. Mary Muse went off to work for Microcom, one of their purchased companies, and Ernest Reyes is going back to be the head of the 9x department at Mic Redux Philippines for a while until he will be the CEO again, this time for Malco. The acting CEO for Malco from Reyes' departure to his return is Stephen Edwards, the former president and COO of PowerOS.
For August 2023, Malco hired 500,000 employees, doubled the market cap, demolished the PowerOS entity after 152 years, made a TV commercial, which is the trailer itself, and a billboard around WA and AZ, and announced the slogan is "Makes computing for the ride.".
For September 2023, all the PowerOS subsidiaries, now turned into Malco subsidiaries after the shutdown, made their relaunch trailer, working on a version of Vindaugus codenamed Revival, made a short on their YouTube and TikTok accounts, and had plans to bought PowerOS (now known as The Horizon Company), but later denied by THC.
For Late September 2023, Malco had their original page locked down, they transferred their page to Record Group's page, and back to develop codename Revival, with build R1.34, which is originally going to compiled on September 21.
On September 30, 2023, Ernest Reyes was at the Mic Redux's Mobile Professionals Developer Conference (MPDC) Philippines 2023 (which was live via the Mic Redux Philippines' Facebook page) via a video call at the Manila House Airway System. He was not here at the convention due to a fever last September 21. He talked about the first ever 9x port for Number Phone.
For October 2023, there was only one update, and that is they had posted a post on their YouTube community tab thanking for reaching one billion views on the trailer video last September 17.
In November 2023, Malco reorganized its 273,500 non-Vindaugus employees into five divisions to revive their PowerOS-era products, despite delays caused by Vindaugus development issues. By mid-November, tech reports hinted at a possible postponement of Malco's relaunch. Concerns deepened on November 27 when an employee mentioned a potential shutdown. However, on November 29, employees opposed this, suggesting a merger or acquisition by The Horizon Company. That same day, Malco's secondary wiki page was locked by the reversed Microsoft, though Malco remained unaware.
In December 2023, Malco encountered a secondary wiki page lockdown on December 2, which they accepted more calmly than a previous incident involving their main page. By December 21, they began transferring the page's contents to the Mic Redux page without authorization to continue sharing information, though the transfer remained incomplete until January 7, 2024.
In January 2024, Malco faced ongoing challenges from delays dating back to October 2023. On January 9, a pivotal developer meeting was interrupted by a call for former CEO Ernest Reyes to return, which developers supported before resuming their discussions. Later on January 12, Reyes appeared virtually at the launch of Mic Redux's TMC Philippines after orchestrating a swift travel arrangement for MHAS agents from Tucson to Manila.
In February 2024, Ernest Reyes caused a stir on February 2 by walking from Mic Redux Philippines to MHAS without executive approval. Later in the month, on February 22, Malco officially announced the indefinite postponement of its relaunch, originally set for March 7, 2024, citing ongoing delays.
In March 2024, Malco made notable progress and changes. On March 12, they released Vindaugus build R2.87-2, featuring minor bug fixes, and rebranded as PowerTech, adopting a refreshed version of the old PowerOS branding with updated slogans. The Malco name was retained as a secondary identity pending the company’s relaunch. On March 18, Ernest Reyes initiated efforts to unlock the locked Malco and PowerOS wiki pages, citing delays since October 2023, and planned to contact the individual responsible for the locks.
In April 2024, PowerTech gained attention with an April Fools' joke video on April 1, humorously announcing a rebranding to "MalNo" as a food company. On April 10, employees ousted acting CEO Stephen Edwards, likely due to his poor reception, and replaced him temporarily with Ivan Hart. Hart initiated a referendum on April 11 to decide the next acting CEO, with Ernest Reyes and Adam Dixon as candidates. Voting was open to Vindaugus Insider Program members and website visitors from April 12 to 14.
Though results were delayed, they were announced on April 27, revealing that Ernest Reyes won by a narrow margin. The internet celebrated his return to PowerTech (formerly Malco) after an eight-month absence, and Reyes acknowledged the outcome with a simple, enthusiastic tweet on May 1.
On October 3, 2024, at 1:53 a.m., the Malco page was reactivated after 5 months of inactivity, after the employees were signed-in because they need to sign-in in order to make changes to the page. On the same day at 2:31 a.m., Malco unexpectedly made a "cryptic" X (formerly Twitter) post, just said "s". The post went up for 6 minutes before it got deleted.
On November 28, 2024, Malco put up a statement saying that it will shutdown on December 31.
On November 29, Ivan Hart makes a X account and makes a post saying "I'm calling it now: Malco will collaborate with The Pokémon Company International for something new. We'll see it soon.".
As of now, PowerTech will have 1.15 million employees; the acting CEO for now is Ivan Hart; and it will have a market cap of $304 trillion.
==Reasons for failure==
Prior to the comeback of Malco, commentators point to several reasons for Malco's failures and downfall, including having a poor money management practices, having a concept way ahead of its time, and completely ignoring what their consumers needed most.
Most people named Malco as one of the largest points for technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between.
==Legacy==
Prior to the comeback of Malco in 1871, two new companies that embraced Malco's traditions with far better execution (OS-Ready (from 1972–2023 as PowerOS, and 2023-present as The Horizon Company (THC)) and MC-OS (which closed up in 1904, reopened in 1905 as MicroOS before being closed in 1940, reopened yet another time in 1972 as Traf-O-Data, and since 1975 has been named Mic Redux)) were founded.
The PowerOS company used to exist, but now the former campus are closed and demolished, and the company used to end up with a shutting down on August 21, 2023, but on September 9, 2023, over 2 weeks after the shutdown, PowerOS was making a comeback as The Horizon Company (THC). As for Mic Redux, the company is still going strong, making operating systems, business products, and more.
==2023 Malco and Vindaugus logos (used for the launch of Malco)==
For the Malco logo, the logo featured a square depicting a tribal house with a monitor inside the tribal house, symbolizing that Malco was a company that made during the tribal era, with a gradient of green, red, yellow, pink, blue, and black on the square because tribal houses typically can be colored any of these colors. To the right side of the square is the wordmark Malco," colored a gradient of black and light grey in the text font Segoe UI Bold.
For the subsidiaries, it is the Malco logo but with the country name capitalized on the bottom left of the wordmark (e.g., for France, it is FRANCE, for Germany, it is GERMANY).
For the Vindaugus logo, the logo also has a square, but this time with a square, and within this square is another square, and inside this square is a cross similar to the Mic Redux and Number logos with a gradient of black and light grey to the square. To the right side of the square is the wordmark "Vindaugus," colored like the square and Malco's wordmark, with the text font also being Segoe UI Bold.
==List of Vindaugus codename Revival builds==
* Build R1.09 - September 7, 3099 BCα
* Build R1.21 - September 14, 1α
* Build R1.35 - September 28, 4α (originally there was a build on September 21, 3α, but delayed due to the original page being locked)
* Build R1.46 - October 5, 17α
* Build R1.61 - October 12, 68α
* Build R1.78 - October 19, 274α
* Build R1.94 - October 26, 1097α
* Build R2.12 - November 2, 1991α
* Build R2.27 - November 9, 1996α
* Build R2.38 - November 16, 1998α
* Build R2.55 - November 23, 2008α
* Build R2.87 - December 21, 2010α
* Build R2.87-2 - March 12, 2014α
==Trivia==
This page is the third time/backup page of PowerTech, because the original page got locked, and the second page got wiped by the reversed Mic Redux. This page is borrowed from the Mic Redux page. This page is similar to the original page and the secondary page, but there is some differences like the hyperlinks remove to decrease the likelihood of this page being locked again.
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