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Charizard

Charizard is a Fire/Flying type pokemob that evolves from Charmeleon at level 36.

 Location
 Pokedex Number

Charizard can Mega Evolve into either Mega Charizard X or Mega Charizard Y with a mega stone and mega ring.

## Move List

 7
 10
 17
 21
 28
 32
 36
 41
 47
 56
 62
 71
 77

## TM Move List

 Earthquake
 Fire Blast
 Flame Charge
 Overheat
 Incinerate
 Bulldoze
 Substitute
 Cut
 AncientPower
 Crunch
 Focus Punch
 Fire Pledge
 ThunderPunch
 Fury Cutter
Charmander

Charmander is a Fire type pokemob that you can choose as a starting pokemob or purchase from a villager priest for 30 emeralds.

 Location
 Pokedex Number

It evolves into Charmeleon at level 16

## Move List

 7
 10
 16
 19
 25
 28
 34
 37
 43
 46

## TM Move List

 Fire Blast
 Flame Charge
 Overheat
 Swords Dance
 Rock Smash
 Strength
 Bite
 Dragon Pulse
 Metal Claw
 Heat Wave
 Secret Power
 Mud-Slap
 Mega Punch
 Seismic Toss
Bulbasaur

Bulbasaur is a Grass/Poison pokemob that you can choose as a starter or purchase from a villager priest for 30 emeralds.

Bulbasaur Evolves into Ivysaur at Level 16.

 Location

## Move List

 3
 7
 9
 13
 13
 15
 19
 21
 25
 27
 37

## TM Move List

 Rest
 Flash
 Substitute
 Strength
 Giga Drain
 Petal Dance
 Grass Pledge
 Bullet Seed
 Mud-Slap
 Body Slam
List of Pokemobs

There are currently over 400 Pokemobs added by pokecube and its extensions.

* All red link pokemon are have yet to be added to pokecube.

\*Just because a pokemon has a page doesn't mean it is available to catch yet. All data comes from the in game pokedex. This generally only applies to legendary pokemon but if you cant find a pokemon in game this would be why.
Nidoqueen

Nidoqueen is a poison/ground pokemob. Nidoqueen Evolves from Nidorina when given Moon Stone.

 Location

## Move List

 23
 35
 43
 58

## TM Move List

 Hyper Beam
 Thunder
 Brick Break
 Sludge Bomb
 Aerial Ace
 Round
 Shadow Claw
 Rock Slide
 Substitute
 Cut
 Counter
 Pursuit
 venomdrench
 Toxic Spikes
 Poison Fang
 Ice Punch
 Stealth Rock
 Focus Punch
 Avalanche
207 ABY

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239 lat po *Mrocznym widmie*

229 lat po *Ataku klonów*

226 lat po *Zemście Sithów*

207 lat po *Nowej nadziei*

204 lata po *Imperium kontratakuje*

203 lata po *Powrocie Jedi*

173 lata po *Przebudzeniu Mocy*

173 lata po *Ostatnim Jedi*

172 lata po *Skywalkerze. Odrodzeniu*

Ten artykuł zawiera spis wydarzeń z fanonu *Gwiezdnych wojen*, które miały miejsce w roku **207 ABY**, czyli w 207. roku po bitwie o Yavin.
Chansey

Chansey is a normal pokemob. Chansey Evolves into Blissey. Chansey Evolves from Happiny when given Oval Stone.

 Location

## Move List

 5
 12
 16
 23
 27
 31
 38
 42
 54

## TM Move List

 Rain Dance
 Earthquake
 Double Team
 Rock Tomb
 Echoed Voice
 Giga Impact
 Rock Slide
 Substitute
 dazzlinggleam
 Metronome
 Sweet Kiss
 Drain Punch
 Icy Wind
 ThunderPunch
 Shock Wave
Nick

**Day(s) Lasted** | 21

**Nick** is a contestant from *Survivor: Albania*. He was the seventh contestant voted out and was the merge boot.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*lost*)

**Are you faster?** (*won*)

**How long can you go?** (*won*)

**Loopedy loop** (*won*)

**Spamming time!** (*won*)

**Dunk it!** (*lost*)

**Survivor Auction** (*lost*)

### Voting History

 1 | Dallas
EFS

**EFS** may refer to one of the following:

* Electronic Filing System, an electronic platform by the Singapore Judiciary
* Electronic Filing System, an electronic platform for the United States Patent & Trademark office
* Emergency Fire Service, now Country Fire Service (Australia)
* Emperor of the Fading Suns, a turn-based, strategy video-game
* Encrypting File System, the encryption subsystem of the NTFS file system
* Extent File System, a file system used in the IRIX operating system
* Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana, a Brazilian railway
* Event free survival, measure of cancer in medicine.
* Exchange of Futures for Swaps
* *EFS*, a Portuguese manufacturer of lightweight motorcycles
* *Ethnological Forgery Series* (E.F.S), a series of songs by the krautrock band Can
* Escape from Samsara, a London based nightclub
* EF-S, a derivative of Canon's EF lens mount
* Swedish Evangelical Mission, abbreviated EFS (*Evangeliska fosterlandsstiftelsen* in Swedish)
* Endian Firewall System, an open source firewall system
* Expenditure and Food Survey, a statistical survey conducted annually by the Office for National Statistics in Great Britain

**This article is a disambiguation page for EFS**

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Combusken

Combusken is a fire/fighting pokemob. Combusken Evolves into Blaziken at Level 36. Combusken Evolves from Torchic at Level 16.

 Location

## Move List

 7
 13
 16
 17
 21
 28
 32
 39
 43
 50
 54

## TM Move List

 Fire Blast
 Flame Charge
 Echoed Voice
 Will-O-Wisp
 Poison Jab
 confide
 Counter
 Flame Burst
 smellingsalts
 Bounce
 Knock Off
 Focus Punch
 Vacuum Wave
 DynamicPunch
 Double-Edge
Tyranitar

Tyranitar is a rock/dark pokemob. Tyranitar Evolves from Pupitar at Level 55.

 Location

## Move List

 5
 10
 14
 19
 23
 28
 34
 41
 47
 54
 63
 73
 82

## TM Move List

 Rain Dance
 Dig
 Fire Blast
 Rest
 Shadow Claw
 Bulldoze
 Rock Smash
 Cut
 Assurance
 Iron Defense
 Pursuit
 Dragon Pulse
 Ice Punch
 ThunderPunch
 Shock Wave
 Whirlpool
 DynamicPunch
 Double-Edge
Venusaur

Venusaur is a Grass/Poison pokemob that evolves from Ivysaur at level 32.{{Infobox

Venusaur can Mega Evolve using a mega stone and mega ring.

* Texture/Model for Mega Venusaur is not implemented yet.

 Location

## Move List

 3
 7
 9
 13
 13
 15
 20
 23
 28
 31
 32
 50
 53

## TM Move List

 Sludge Bomb
 Echoed Voice
 Swords Dance
 Substitute
 Strength
 Giga Drain
 Power Whip
 Grass Pledge
 Outrage
 Captivate
 Headbutt
Morgan

**Day(s) Lasted** | 36

**Morgan** is a contestant from *Survivor: Albania*. She was the twelfth contestant voted out and the fifth jury member.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*lost*)

**Are you faster?** (*won*)

**How long can you go?** (*won*)

**Loopedy loop** (*won*)

**Spamming time!** (*won*)

**Dunk it!** (*lost*)

**Survivor Auction** (lost*)*
**The exploding ball** (*lost*)

**Karma Hunt** (*won*)

**Who wants it more?** (*won*)

**Familiar Faces** (*won*)

**A Little Help Needed** (*lost*)
Dallas

**Day(s) Lasted** | 39

**Dallas** is the runner up of *Survivor: Albania*. He lost to Jacob in a 6-1 vote, receiving jury member Roger's vote to win the game.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*lost*)

**Are you faster?** (*won*)

**How long can you go?** (*won*)

**Loopedy loop** (*won*)

**Spamming time!** (*won*)

**Dunk it!** (*lost*)

**Survivor Auction** (lost*)*
**The exploding ball** (*lost*)

**Karma Hunt** (*lost*)

**Who wants it more?** (*lost*)

**Familiar Faces** (*lost*)

**A Little Help Needed** (*lost*)

**I Can Spell A Rainbow** (*lost*)

**Don't Be Last** (*lost*)
Roger

**Day(s) Lasted** | 37

**Roger** is a contestant from *Survivor: Albania*. He was the thirteenth contestant voted out and the sixth jury member.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*won*)

**Are you faster?** (*lost*)

**How long can you go?** (*lost*)

**Loopedy loop** (*lost*)

**Spamming time!** (*lost*)

**Dunk it!** (*won*)

**Survivor Auction** (*lost*)

**The exploding ball** (*lost*)

**Karma Hunt** (*lost*)

**Who wants it more?** (*lost*)

**Familiar Faces** (*lost*)

**A Little Help Needed** (*lost*)

**I Can Spell A Rainbow** (*lost*)
Jacob

**Day(s) Lasted** | 39

**Jacob** is the winner of *Survivor: Albania*. He beat fellow finalist Dallas in a 6-1 vote to claim the title of Sole Survivor

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*lost*)

**Are you faster?** (*won*)

**How long can you go?** (*won*)

**Loopedy loop** (*won*)

**Spamming time!** (*won*)

**Dunk it!** (*lost*)

**Survivor Auction** (lost*)*
**The exploding ball** (*won*)

**Karma Hunt** (*lost*)

**Who wants it more?** (*lost*)

**Familiar Faces** (*lost*)

**A Little Help Needed** (*won*)

**I Can Spell A Rainbow** (*won*)

**Don't Be Last** (*won*)
Mittens' Survivor Wikia

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Dustin

**Day(s) Lasted** | 38

**Dustin** is a contestant from *Survivor: Albania*. He was the fourteenth contestant voted out and the seventh and final jury member.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*lost*)

**Are you faster?** (*won*)

**How long can you go?** (*won*)

**Loopedy loop** (*won*)

**Spamming time!** (*won*)

**Dunk it!** (*lost*)

**Survivor Auction** ('lost*)*
**The exploding ball** (*lost*)

**Karma Hunt** (*lost*)

**Who wants it more?** (*losts*)

**Familiar Faces** (*lost*)

**A Little Help Needed** (*lost*)

**I Can Spell A Rainbow** (*lost*)

**Don't Be Last** (*lost*)
Katherine

**Day(s) Lasted** | 24

**Katherine** is a contestant from *Survivor: Albania*. She was the eighth contestant voted out and the first jury member.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*won*)

**Are you faster?** (*lost*)

**How long can you go?** (*lost*)

**Loopedy loop** (*lost*)

**Spamming time!** (*lost*)

**Dunk it!** (*won*)

**Survivor Auction** (*lost*)

**The exploding ball** (*lost*)
Dana

**Day(s) Lasted** | 30

**Dana** is a contestant from *Survivor: Albania*. She was the tenth contestant voted out and the third jury member.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*won*)

**Are you faster?** (*lost*)

**How long can you go?** (*lost*)

**Loopedy loop** (*lost*)

**Spamming time!** (*lost*)

**Dunk it!** (*won*)

**Survivor Auction** (*lost*)

**The exploding ball** (*lost*)

**Karma Hunt** (*lost*)

**Who wants it more?** (*lost*)
Jenn

**Day(s) Lasted** | 27

**Jenn** is a contestant from *Survivor: Albania*. She was the ninth contestant voted out and the second jury member.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*lost*)

**Are you faster?** (*won*)

**How long can you go?** (*won*)

**Loopedy loop** (*won*)

**Spamming time!** (*won*)

**Dunk it!** (*lost*)

**Survivor Auction** (*won*)

**The exploding ball** (*lost*)

**Karma Hunt** (*lost*)
Seb

**Day(s) Lasted** | 33

**Seb** is a contestant from *Survivor: Albania*. He was the eleventh contestant voted out and the fourth jury member.

## Survivor: Albania

### Challenges

**Pass the Torch** (*won*)

**Are you faster?** (*lost*)

**How long can you go?** (*lost*)

**Loopedy loop** (*lost*)

**Spamming time!** (*lost*)

**Dunk it!** (*won*)

**Survivor Auction** (*lost*)

**The exploding ball** (*lost*)

**Karma Hunt** (*lost*)

**Who wants it more?** (*lost*)

**Familiar Faces** (*lost*)
Star Wars Battlefront II

EU October 31, 2005

**Star Wars Battlefont II** is a first/third-person shooter video game developed by Pandemic Studios, and published by LucasArts. The game was made for the Xbox, PC, Playstation 2, and PSP.

### Gameplay

You can play as the Republic,Separatists,Empire,and the Rebellion. Each faction has there own units and weapon setups to choose from. There are six different class in the game. Those class are Soldier class, Heavy Weapon class, Sniper class, Engieer class, Special class 1, and Special class 2. There are 38 maps that are present in the game. There are also vehicles that you can ride in on certain maps.

In the mutiplayer part of the game there are two options Lan, and online modes. Lan allows you to connect to a computer near you ( or for consoles like the xbox one plug another controller.) But the online is no longer supported but there are other sites that allows you to still host online matches.

In the game you can switch form a first persion view to a third persion view. Unlike the first game you can now run, which allows you to get to locations on the map faster. When you are fighting in space you can go into the engine room and control room. Unlike the first game where you could only go to the hanger. There are two different types of space battles those being Conquest, and CTF. In Conquest the way you win is by, reaching a certain a certain amount ponits before the other team dose. In Conquest the way you earn points is by shooting down enemy fighters, and destorying the enemy space ships. IIn CTF the way you win is by getting the target before the othe team dose. When you get it you try to bring it to your ship, to get points for your team.
Eric Traut

**Eric Traut** is an American software engineer and software emulation pioneer. Traut graduated from Stanford University in 1992. From 1993 to 1995 he worked for Apple Computer, creating a Mac 68K emulator to be used in PowerPC-based Macintoshes. His work on this project led to a patent on a form of dynamic recompilation.

Traut went on to join Connectix, where he developed successful commercial emulators such as Virtual PC and Virtual Game Station. He became Connectix's Chief Technical Officer in 2001.

Traut became a Microsoft employee after the company purchased Connectix in 2003. He currently works for Microsoft in Redmond, Washington as a Distinguished Engineer, leading Microsoft's virtualization technology efforts.

## References

1. ↑ Eric Traut: Distinguished Engineer
2. ↑ Template:US patent reference

## External links

* Eric Traut on Microsoft PressPass
* Eric Traut talks about Windows 7 and MinWin

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Reversi

Reversi, also known as Othello, is a game that is available on Microsoft Windows, such as Windows 1.0, and other versions.

## Rules

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The object of the game is to have the majority of disks turned to display your color when the last playable empty square is filled.

There are the black discs and the white discs.

Black goes first.

On Microsoft Windows, the board is a 8x8 checkerboard. There are 2 black discs and 2 whites discs diagonal to each other. That is the starting position.

When you play reverse, you need to put your disc adjacent to a white disc(s), where there is your color on the other side of the opponent's discs. When they place it, the other players disc turns to your color. This game needs much strategy.

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## Windows Versions

The first version of Windows reversi is in is as far back as Windows 1.0.
MinWin

**MinWin** is a term used informally by Microsoft to describe the Kernel and operating system components that form the basis of releases of Microsoft Windows starting with Windows Vista.

The term was first used in 2003 to describe approximately 95% of the common components of the operating system, but has over time come to refer to a significantly smaller portion thereof.

Its most recent and most well-known variation as a minimalistic, self-contained set of Windows components is slated to ship as part of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Jon Kimmich

**Jon Kimmich** was a Lead Product Planner for Microsoft Games Studios during pivotal parts of the XBOX conception, launch and lifespan. Jon was instrumental in the acquisition of many titles for Microsoft Games Studios publishing for both the PC and XBOX platforms. Together with Ed Fries and Stuart Moulder, Jon was responsible for the acquisition of Bungie Studios, FASA Interactive, and Digital Anvil. In addition to acquisitions, Jon secured publishing rights for Microsoft for externally developed games such as Dungeon Siege by Gas Powered Games, Rise of Nations from Big Huge Games, and MechAssault by Day 1 Studios as well as many internally developed games such as Crimson Skies, MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, Brute Force and Halo.

According to The Xbox360 Uncloaked by Dean Takahashi Jon Kimmich also negotiated deals for Epic's Gears of War and a new Valve game for the Xbox360, of which only Gears of War was signed by MGS.

Before joining Microsoft Games Studios, Kimmich held other positions at Microsoft, which included development manager for a new product development group in Microsoft’s Hardware Team, responsible for hardware devices such as the original award-winning Microsoft Natural keyboard. The addition of the Windows-key and application-key, which first appeared on the Microsoft Natural Keyboard in 1994 (and are now standard on most keyboards and laptops designed to support Windows) has been attributed to Jon.

In June 2004, Jon Kimmich left Microsoft to become Producer and Director of Business Development for Day 1 Studios. Since this time Day 1 Studios has developed MechAssault 2, F.E.A.R. for the xbox360 and PlayStation 3, and Fracture.

Jon Kimmich was also an investor in WizKids, LLC, a game company founded by Jordan Weisman (founder of FASA Interactive) in 2000 to develop and sell a line of collectible miniatures.

## External links

* MobyGames rap sheet for Jon
* IMDB Entry for Jon Kimmich
* Interview with Jon from GameIndustry.biz
* Interview with Jon from TeamXbox
* Interview on Yahoo News about Windows Keyboard and games
* Template:Halopedia

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Matt Pietrek

**Matt Pietrek** (born 27 January 1966) is a computer specialist and author specializing in MS Windows.

Pietrek has written several books on the subject and, for eight years, wrote the column "Under the Hood" in MSJ (and subsequently) MSDN Magazine. As of April 2004 he has been working at Microsoft, initially on Visual Studio.

## Books

* Pietrek, Matt (November 1, 1995). ***Windows 95 System Programming Secrets***. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 1-56884-318-6.

* Pietrek, Matt (May 31, 1993). ***Windows Internals***. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-201-62217-3.

* Schulman, Andrew; David Maxey, Matt Pietrek (August 1, 1992). ***Undocumented Windows***. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-60834-0.

## External links

* Pietrek's MSDN blog
* Pietrek's web site
* A Crash Course on the Depths of Win32 Structured Exception Handling - The first and most famous article describing Microsoft's Structured Exception Handling mechanism on the implementation level
* Part1, Part2 — Matt's MSJ article describing Win32 Portable Executable file format (its predecessor, also by him, was the first publicly available material on the subject)
Windows NT Server

**Windows NT Server** can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:

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* Windows NT 3.xx Server
* Windows NT 3.x0 Server
* Windows NT Advanced Server

* Windows NT x.x0 Server

* Windows NT x.0 Server
* Windows NT Server Family (Windows 2000 Server Family Alpha or Beta)
Microsoft Office XP

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**Microsoft Office XP** is an office suite by Microsoft for Windows, released to manufacturing on March 5, 2001 and released to the public on May 31, 2001. It is the successor to predecessor to Microsoft Office 2003 and the successor to to Microsoft Office 2000. It can run on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows XP.

## New features

* **Safe Mode**: This feature allows applications like Microsoft Outlook to start despite being in an unsafe and unstable state and might otherwise crash. Safe Mode enables Office to detect and either repair or bypass the source of the problem, such as a corrupted Registry or a misbehaving add-in.
* **Smart tag**: One of the new technologies introduced in this version, smart tags operate based on user activity, such as help with typing errors. These are not programmable because they are not supplied with the products.
* **Product Activation**: Office XP introduced product activation technology to prevent software piracy
* **Speech and handwriting recognition**
* **Text Services Framework** support: Word supports the Text Services Framework making it possible for services implemented using TSF to be used in Word, such as Office's speech recognition and tablet PC ink support
* **Clipboard** functionality has been greatly improved. The clipboard can store up to 24 items and is located in the task pane. The Clipboard task pane also displays a thumbnail view of a copied item, whether it consists of text, numbers, a graphic or an image.
* Introduction of task panes.
* Flatter, more streamlined Windows XP-style look

## Removed features

* Several add-ins for Excel are made redundant due to their integration
* The .DBF files for Samples.xls and two Japanese template are removed in Excel 2002.
* Microsoft Query removed
* Custom Soundtracks add-in no longer supported; Routing Recipient option on the Send To menu removed
* Microsoft Binder discontinued - replaced by Microsoft Unbind, which can extract the documents in a Binder file
* Small Business Custom Manager removed
* Microsoft Map for Excel removed
* Number of features were removed in Outlook
Windows Professional

Windows Professional (released in 1993 (as Windows Workstation it was called in 1993-2001/2009-2011)-present) can refer to either an individual or all of the following versions of Microsoft Windows.

* Windows 3.x Workstation (released in 1993-1996)
* Windows NT Workstation (released in 1993-2001)
* Windows x.00 Workstation (released in 1996-2001)
* Windows 2000 Professional (released in 1999-2000)
* Windows XP Professional (made in 2000 and released in 2001-2010)
* Windows 7.x Professional (released in 2009-2011)
* Windows 8.x Workstation/Professional (released in 2012-2014)
* Windows 9 Professional (released in 2014 or 2015-present)
Survivor: Albania

***Survivor: Albania*** is the first season of Mittens' Survivor series. Sixteen people from around the world will be marooned on the Albanian coast, forced to build a new society. It is the ultimate challenge, a group of strangers forced to work together while battling the elements and each other. They will have to learn to adapt or they will be voted out of the tribe. In the end, only one will remain to claim the million dollar prize and the title of Sole Survivor.

## Production

22 people applied, with 6 being cut and 16 going on to be the castaways competing in the game. These sixteen castaways were divided into two tribes of eight. The tribes were Lezhë wearing red buffs, and Elbasan wearing black buffs. Both tribes are named after cities in Albania. When 10 castaways remained, the the two tribed merged into the Shqiponja tribe, wearing light gold buffs. This tribe name means "eagle" in Albanian, which is the country's national symbol.

## Twists

1 Hidden Immunity Idol was hidden at each camp. Contestants received an idol clue each time they won a challenge, both tribal and invididual. The idol could be played before the votes at Tribal Council were read in order to save themselves from elimination.

## Contestants

*The **Total Votes** is the number of votes a castaway received during Tribal Councils where the castaway was eligible to be voted out of the game. It does not include the votes received during the final Tribal Council.*

## Intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9e5LXnBqw
Curt Kolcun

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**Curt Kolcun** is the Microsoft vice president for U.S. Public Sector. He is responsible for all of Microsoft’s business in federal government, state and local government, and education markets, including students, K-12 and higher education.

A veteran of Microsoft for more than 18 years, Kolcun has been the Vice President Microsoft’s Federal government business since 2003, and has been responsible for sales, contracting, pre-sales technical support, consulting services and product marketing.

Under his leadership, the federal team has grown its business 49 percent since 2003. The team has also implemented key initiatives such as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), a U.S. Government mandate designed to provide a single, standard, enterprise-wide, managed environment for desktops and laptops running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista.

## External links

* Microsoft promotes Curt Kolcun to lead U.S. Public Sector business
Criticism of Microsoft

During November and December 2020, Microsoft’s support teams continuously failed to resolve ongoing problems I’m experiencing with Microsoft’s translation tools. Their last contact member, on Thursday 24, 2020, basically said that his level of expertise would be more than sufficient to ensure that their product worked properly on my computer. Unfortunately, it wasn't. In fact, he

1. couldn`t locate the previous communications regarding this identified problem to learn what was previously done

2. claimed my Microsoft purchase didn't include the translation package

3. couldn't adequately express himself in understandable English, and

4. Raised numerous other problems, which led your consultant to discontinue the phone call.

Mitchel Gerry
Scott Knaster

**Scott Knaster** is an American technical writer who has written many books, mostly dealing with Macintosh programming and using the Macintosh. He has worked for such companies as Apple Inc., General Magic, Microsoft, Danger Inc., and Google.

Knaster's first books on Macintosh programming in the late 1980s and early 1990s were considered required reading for Macintosh programmers for many years.

In addition to writing books, Knaster writes for several periodicals and web sites including Macworld, MacTech, and O'Reilly Media's Mac Dev Center.

Knaster is a regular speaker at Macworld Expo, MacHack (until it ended), and sits on the panel of Apple's Stump the Experts.

## List of books written by Scott Knaster

* *Cooking with Hypertalk 2.0*
* *How to Write Macintosh Software: The Debugging Reference for Macintosh* (2nd edition: 1988, ISBN 978-0672484292; 3rd edition: 1992, ISBN 978-0201608052)
* *Macintosh Programming Secrets* (1st edition: 1988) (2nd edition: 1992, ISBN 978-0201581348)
* *Presenting Magic Cap*
* *Macworld Discover Internet Explorer 3* (1997, ISBN 978-0764540318)
* *MSN the Everyday Web* (2001, ISBN 978-0735611405)
* *Mac Toys: 12 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment* (2004, ISBN 978-0764543517)
* *Hacking iPod and iTunes* (2004, ISBN 978-0764569845)
* *Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations* (2005, ISBN 978-0764583452)
* *Take Control of Switching to the Mac* (2008, ISBN 9781933671048)
* *Learn Objective-C on the Mac* (2008, ISBN 978-1430218159)

Knaster was also the series editor for Addison-Wesley’s *Macintosh Inside Out*, a collection of 19 technical books published over a 3-year period in the 1990s.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Scott Knaster. "Scott Knaster". Oreillynet.com. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2149. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Scott Knaster's resume". Papercar.com. http://www.papercar.com/scottk. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
3. ↑ "Take Control of Switching to the Mac". Takecontrolbooks.com. 2008-03-13. http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/switching.html. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
4. ↑ "MacFUSE: New Frontiers in File Systems - O'Reilly Media". Macdevcenter.com. 2008-10-09. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/03/06/macfuse-new-frontiers-in-file-systems.html. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
5. ↑ "Scott Knaster, Superstar Author, Industry Veteran, Microsoft Escapee to Egg On Unstoppable Conference". MacHack. 2003-06-05. http://www.machack.com/pr/6\_5\_03.html. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
Marla Wood

**Marla Wood** worked as an administrative assistant and bookkeeper for Microsoft, and was one of the company's first 12 employees. She organized the nonexempt employees at Microsoft and filed an overtime pay dispute, which was later settled. In 1980, she and her husband, Steve, became the first of those 11 to leave Microsoft.
Marla Wood now spends her time raising the couple's two children and working as a volunteer in Sammamish, Washington. The couple is estimated to have a personal net worth of $15 million.

## External links

* Associated Press profile of early employees
Managed code

It has been suggested that this article or section should be merged with **Interpreted language**. Please help the Microsoft Wiki by discussing this issue on the article's talk page.

**Managed code** is a differentiation coined by Microsoft to identify computer program code that requires and will only execute under the "management" of a Common Language Runtime virtual machine (resulting in Bytecode).

This disambiguation is prevalent and only relevant when developing applications that interact with the .NET Framework or other Common Language Runtime implementations, like Mono. Since some of the classic programming languages have been ported into the Common Language Runtime, the differentiation is needed to identify "managed" code, especially in a mixed setup. In this same context programmers also refer to code that doesn't depend on the Common Language Runtime as **unmanaged**.

Microsoft's Visual C++ development environment can produce both managed code (running under the .NET Common Language Runtime) or compiled binaries, running directly on the Windows platform with the help of its C Runtime Library..

Benefits of using managed code include programmer convenience (by increasing the level of abstraction, creating smaller models) and enhanced security guarantees, depending on the platform (including the VM implementation). There are many historical examples of code running on virtual machines, such as UCSD Pascal utilizing p-code. Java popularized this approach with its bytecode executed by the Java Virtual Machine.

Another source of confusion was created when Microsoft started connecting the .NET Framework with C++, and the selection on how to name the Managed Extensions for C++, it was first named Managed C++ and then renamed to C++/CLI. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language and member of the C++ standards committee even commented on this issue, "On the difficult and controversial question of what the CLI binding/extensions to C++ is to be called, I prefer C++/CLI as a shorthand for "The CLI extensions to ISO C++". Keeping C++ as part of the name reminds people what is the base language and will help keep C++ a proper subset of C++ with the C++/CLI extensions."

## External links

* Channel9 video of the Microsoft Research OS made in fully managed C# code

## References

1. ↑ Gregory, Kate (2003-04-28). "Managed, Unmanaged, Native: What Kind of Code Is This?". http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/2197621. Retrieved 2009-04-22.
2. ↑ Stroustrup, Bjarne (2009-06-29). "Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: What do you think of C++/CLI?". http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs\_faq.html#CppCLI. Retrieved 2009-06-29.

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Rob Glaser

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**Rob Glaser** (born January 16, 1962) is the founder of RealNetworks (1994) which produced RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix, among other products and services. Before founding RealNetworks, he had become a millionaire by working for Microsoft for ten years.

Glaser, while Chief Executive of Real Networks, clashed repeatedly with Tony Fadell, widely known as the Godfather of the iPhone and iPod, who then left the company after 5 weeks and went onto founding the products for Apple.

Glaser is a graduate of Yale University with an MA degree in Economics and a BS degree in Computer Science.

Glaser was the 22nd largest individual donor to 527 groups in the 2004 US election, donating over $2.2 million to pro-Democratic organizations. He was the leading creditor to Air America Radio, loaning at least $9.8 million according to its bankruptcy filing.

## External links

* No. 41 Rob Glaser: Bit Streamer - Time Digital Top 50 (1999)
* Rob Glaser, Moving Target - interview by Randall Rothenberg writing for Wired Magazine (August, 1999)
* RealNetwork's CEO Rob Glaser - interview by Lance Ulanoff writing for PC Magazine (April 21, 2003)
* Can Glaser and Jobs find harmony? - interview by John Borland writing for c/net news.com (August 17, 2004)
* Free Fall Radio: Air America Goes Bankrupt - Page 3 of the Chapter 11 filing from The Smoking Gun (13 October 2006)
* Rethinking Mobile Data Plans - On the Hot Seat with Rob Glaser - interview by Sue Marek for FierceMobileContent (December 18, 2007)
* Big Audio Dynamite - biographical interview with Steve Homer in the Independent Newspaper (7 Feb 2000)

## References

1. ↑ "'Rob Glaser' in "NNDB tracking the entire world"". http://www.nndb.com/people/547/000044415/. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
2. ↑ ""Godfather of iPod Severs Final Ties With Apple"". 2010. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/godfather-of-ipod-severs-final-ties-with-apple/. Retrieved 2010-4-30.
3. ↑ ""Top Individual Contributors to 527 Committees, 2004 Election Cycle"". 2004. http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527indivs.asp?cycle=2004. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
4. ↑ Free Fall Radio: Air America Goes Bankrupt
5. ↑ "Time Digital Top 50 (1999)". Time magazine. 1999. http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/41.html. Retrieved 2008-10-06.
Vic Gundotra

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**Vic Gundotra** (born June 14, 1968), is Vice-President of Engineering for Google and was previously a general manager at Microsoft.

## Career

Gundotra joined Microsoft in 1991 and eventually became General Manager of Platform Evangelism. His duties included promoting Microsoft's APIs and platforms to independent developers and helping to develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications.

Gundotra joined Google in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay working on charitable endeavors due to a Microsoft employee non-compete agreement.
His responsibilities as Vice-President of Engineering include Google's mobile phone applications, and its developer efforts, including OpenSocial, Google Gadgets, Google Gears, and the more than 40 product APIs Google exposes.

## Awards

In 2003, Gundotra was honored by Technology Review magazine in its Top 100 Young Innovator list (age under 35) for his contribution to Microsoft .NET Framework.

## References

1. ↑ Boutin, Paul (2006-06-03). "Where's My Google PC?". Slate. http://slate.com/id/2144896.
2. ↑ "Vic Gundotra, 34. Sparked Microsofts change to .Net". Technology Review. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=291.

## External links

* Thomas, Owen (2006-06-29). "Microsoft exec jumps to Google". CNN Money. http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/29/technology/msft\_brain\_drain.biz2/.
Need for Speed Underground 2

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**Need for Speed Underground 2** is the third Need for Speed game on the Xbox. Need for Speed Underground 2 is the sequel to Need for Speed Underground.

## Gameplay

Neef for Speed Underground 2 has a open world  that you explore. There are more cars in this game. There is custom options for your car.
Greg Whitten

**Greg Whitten** is a former Microsoft Chief software architect where he worked from 1979 to 1998. Whitten graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in mathematics and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. At Microsoft, he developed the standards for the company's BASIC compiler line. Since 2003[update], he has been CEO of Numerix. He is also a vintage car enthusiast.

"GW" in the name of the GW-BASIC dialect of BASIC developed by Microsoft may have come form Greg Whitten's initials:

> "The GW-BASIC name stands for Gee-Whiz BASIC. The GW- name was picked by Bill Gates. He is the one who knows whether it was Gee-Whiz or after me because it has been used both ways. I did set the directions for the BASIC language features after joining the company in 1979.
>
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- Greg Whitten, 13 Apr 2005
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gregory Whitten (2005-04-13). "GW-BASIC". http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2005-April/042999.html. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
2. ↑ "Numerix - Company - Executive Management". http://www.numerix.com/company/execmgmt.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-22.

## External links

* Numerix official website
* Brief biography of Greg Whitten
CleanThis

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CleanThis is a bogus virus scanner with a new Windows flag looking, but part of the fake "Microsoft Security Essentials". This malware is a clone of Thinkpoint but causes a lot of damage to a pc and the alert is the same. This microsoft-like software may make more than just task manager and browser infections. Though, it may hide files that are infected. The way to use browsers is copy the internet browser .exes inorder to use them to remove the bad antivirus software.

## Gallery

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Chris Sells

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**Chris Sells** is a Microsoft employee and author.

## Books

* *The Downloader's Companion to Windows 95* (1995) ISBN 0-1352-0024-5
* *Windows Telephony Programming* (1998) ISBN 0-2016-3450-3
* *Effective COM* (1998) ISBN 0-2013-7968-6
* *ATL Internals* (1999) ISBN 0-3211-5962-4
* *Essential .NET: The Common Language Runtime* (2002) ISBN 0-2017-3411-7
* *Mastering Visual Studio .NET* (2003) ISBN 0-5960-0360-9
* *Windows Forms Programming in C#* (2003) ISBN 0-3211-1620-8
* *Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic.NET* (2003) ISBN 0-3211-2519-3
* *Programming Windows Presentation Foundation: Beta Edition* (2005) ISBN 0-5961-0113-9
* *ATL Internals, 2nd Edition* (2006) ISBN 0-3211-5962-4
* *Windows Forms 2.0 Programming* (2006) ISBN 0-3212-6796-6
* *Programming Windows Presentation Foundation* (2007). ISBN 0-5965-1037-3
Erik Gavriluk

**Erik Gavriluk** (born 1970) is a record producer, musician, and software engineer.

He was a founding employee of DreamWorks SKG and a lead designer on the Cairo Operating System project at Microsoft. He developed the Windows 95 startup sound with Brian Eno and also was a character study for Douglas Coupland's book Microserfs, published in 1995.

In 1998 he founded Bomb Factory, a recording studio and leading manufacturer of music software based in Burbank, California. His production and performance credits include The Dandy Warhols, Blink-182, eels, G. Love & Special Sauce, Stevie Nicks, Melissa Etheridge, Steve Allen, Hal Blaine, Marilyn Manson, Beck, Soulwax and Air.

Bomb Factory was acquired by Avid Technology (NASDAQ: **AVID**) in 2003.

## References

* [1] "Bomb Factory Ships 14 New Plug-ins for MOTU Digital Performer/MAS." January 1, 2001.
* [2] "Digidesign Acquires Selected Assets of Bomb Factory". January 28, 2004.
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Active Directory

**Active Directory** is a technology created by Microsoft that provides a central system for network authentication, management, naming, resource management and digital policy enforcement.

It provides a variety of network services, including:

* Central location for network administration and delegation of authority
* Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
* Kerberos-based authentication
* DNS-based naming and other network information
* Information security and single sign-on for user access to networked based resources
* The ability to scale up or down easily
* Central storage location for application data
* Synchronization of directory updates amongst several servers.

LDAP is the industry standard directory access protocol, making Active Directory widely accessible to management and query applications. Active Directory supports LDAPv3 and LDAPv2.
Using the same database, for use primarily in Windows environments, Active Directory also allows administrators to assign policies, deploy software, and apply critical updates to an organization. Active Directory stores information and settings in a central database. Active Directory networks can vary from a small installation with a few computers, users and printers to tens of thousands of users, many different domains and large server farms spanning many geographical locations.

Active Directory was previewed in 1999, released first with Windows 2000 Server edition, and revised to extend functionality and improve administration in Windows Server 2003. Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2. Active Directory was refined further in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.

Active Directory was called NTDS (NT Directory Service) in older Microsoft documents. This name can still be seen in some Active Directory binaries.

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Windows Passport Utility

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Windows Passport Utility is a rogue anti-spyware program that uses misleading methods to trick users into buying the full version of the program to remove system errors and infections so that the hackers can try to get their identity and money. It is promoted through the use of malware that usually comes from fake online scanners and infected or compromised websites. Once installed Windows Passport Utility will be configured to start automatically when you login to Windows. It will scan your computer and then state that there are many security and system problems that should be fixed immediately. However, it will not allow you to remove any of supposedly found viruses until you first purchase the program. You should ignore what this program displays and remove Windows Passport Utility from your computer as soon as possible. This rogue program will displays fake security alerts too. These alerts may be pop-up windows from your Windows taskbar that state active infections have been found or that your computer is under attack.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-windows-passport-utility.html
Microsoft BackOffice Server

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**Microsoft BackOffice Server** was a computer software package featuring Windows NT Server and other Microsoft server products that ran on NT server. It was marketed during the 1990s and early 2000s for use in branch operations and for small businesses to run their back office operations.
The small business edition of BackOffice Server was released for versions 4.0 and 4.5. In 2000 it was spun off from the "BackOffice" brand, becoming a variant of Windows Server branded as **Windows Small Business Server**. BackOffice Server itself was discontinued on October 1, 2001.

## Software included

Besides Windows NT Server, versions of BackOffice Server suite also included Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SNA Server, Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), Microsoft Mail Server or Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Proxy Server or Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, and Internet Information Services (IIS). The "Small Business" editions omitted SNA Server and SMS.

## Versions

* late 1994 — **BackOffice 1.0**

includes Windows NT Server 3.5, SQL Server 4.21a, SNA Server 2.1, SMS 1.0, and Mail Server 3.2.
* late 1995 — **BackOffice 1.5**

includes Windows NT Server 3.51, SQL Server 6.0, SNA Server 2.11, SMS 1.1, and Mail Server 3.5.
* April 25, 1996 — **BackOffice 2.0**

includes Windows NT Server 3.51, IIS 1.0, SQL Server 6.0 or 6.5, SNA Server 2.11, SMS 1.1, and Exchange Server 4.0.
* December 1996 — **BackOffice 2.5**

includes Windows NT Server 4.0, IIS 2.0, SQL Server 6.5, SNA Server 3.0, SMS 1.2, Exchange Server 4.0, Proxy Server 1.0, Index Server 1.1, Internet Explorer 3.01, and FrontPage 1.1
* December 9, 1997 — **BackOffice Server 4.0**

includes Windows NT Server 4.0, IIS 4.0, SQL Server 6.5, SNA Server 4.0, SMS 1.2, Exchange Server 5.5, Proxy Server 2.0, Index Server 2.0, Transaction Server 2.0, Site Server 3.0, FrontPage 98, and Visual InterDev 1.0.
* January 12, 1999 — **BackOffice Server 4.5**

includes Windows NT Server 4.0 SP4, IIS 4.0, SQL Server 7.0, SNA Server 4.0, SMS 2.0, Exchange Server 5.5, Proxy Server 2.0, Index Server 2.0, Transaction Server 2.0, Internet Explorer 5.0, FrontPage 2000, and Visual InterDev 6.0.
* February 28, 2001 — **BackOffice Server 2000**

includes Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000, SMS 2.0, Exchange Server 2000, ISA Server 2000, and Host Integration Server 2000.
## Requirements

Backoffice server 4.5 with 1 server license and 5 clients access licenses (CAL) marketed for $675US. It required 2 Gigabytes minimum hard drive space, a minimum processor type of Pentium Pro 200 MHz, and a minimum RAM size of 128 megabytes.

## External links

* Microsoft BackOffice Server Archived documentation on Microsoft Technet

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Jon DeVaan

**Jon DeVaan** is the senior vice president of the Windows Core Operating System Division (COSD). DeVaan is responsible for the teams that create the core components and architecture of Microsoft Windows.

DeVaan succeeded Brian Valentine.

DeVaan holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science from Oregon State University, and also serves as a trustee of the university. He is also a technical advisor to the Oregon Innovation Council and an ambassador for United Way of King County.

## External links

* Microsoft Bio
* Microsoft reshuffles executives
* Microsoft begins Development of Vista +1
* Seattle Times

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