Actually Microsoft Research has an IPv6 stack available for NT4. Home page for the Microsoft Research Team And note that they are using a third-party GPL'd product as their IPv6 Web Server.
I actually used to work for a market research firm that was hired indirectly by Microsoft (via one of their hired PR firms but paid via a Microsoft check) to do a survey for a product launch. Having viewed the communications (and never being asked to sign an NDA), I should confirm that Microsoft (via their plausible deniability proxy) was the only company we dealt with that defined what questions should be on the survey based upon what answers they wanted to receive. Other companies may have questioned results that didn't fit their image of what their customers wanted, but Microsoft was the only one that wanted to tell us what the customers wanted prior to us even asking the customers.
In fact I've read a couple of academic papers on this very topic. Here is one dealing with the decision making process for creative bookkeeping. And I'll have to bug Prof. Zeckhauser to get his recent publication on "Earnings Manipulation to Exceed Thresholds" on-line. It's a refreshing piece of data from real companies on earnings manipulations to meet the bright lines of Wall St. earnings expectations and earnings manipulations for private companies just prior to IPO. And don't expect an external accounting firm to find discrepancies during an audit. They aren't hired to work that way. If BCCI (the Bank of Crooks and Criminals International) could undergo audits from one of the Big 5 and come out clean until a post-mortem, I'm sure that Microsoft could as well.
B5 is the only show that I can think of on TV that allowed an entire sub-plot about multi-planetary corporations as a direct threat to democracy and individual rights. Bet that gives the advertisers a warm fuzzy. B5, Homicide, and Law & Order do well to allow for the heroes to be "fallen angels"/anti-heroes. The X-Files has lost something, but every once in a while it can still make me go, "BLEEP". And Frontline continues to throw enough stuff in my face that I have to think about doing the right thing.
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Actually Microsoft Research has an IPv6 stack available for NT4.
Home page for the Microsoft Research Team
And note that they are using a third-party GPL'd product as their IPv6 Web Server.
I actually used to work for a market research firm that was hired indirectly by Microsoft (via one of their hired PR firms but paid via a Microsoft check) to do a survey for a product launch. Having viewed the communications (and never being asked to sign an NDA), I should confirm that Microsoft (via their plausible deniability proxy) was the only company we dealt with that defined what questions should be on the survey based upon what answers they wanted to receive. Other companies may have questioned results that didn't fit their image of what their customers wanted, but Microsoft was the only one that wanted to tell us what the customers wanted prior to us even asking the customers.
In fact I've read a couple of academic papers on this very topic. Here is one dealing with the decision making process for creative bookkeeping. And I'll have to bug Prof. Zeckhauser to get his recent publication on "Earnings Manipulation to Exceed Thresholds" on-line. It's a refreshing piece of data from real companies on earnings manipulations to meet the bright lines of Wall St. earnings expectations and earnings manipulations for private companies just prior to IPO.
And don't expect an external accounting firm to find discrepancies during an audit. They aren't hired to work that way. If BCCI (the Bank of Crooks and Criminals International) could undergo audits from one of the Big 5 and come out clean until a post-mortem, I'm sure that Microsoft could as well.
B5 is the only show that I can think of on TV that allowed an entire sub-plot about multi-planetary corporations as a direct threat to democracy and individual rights. Bet that gives the advertisers a warm fuzzy. B5, Homicide, and Law & Order do well to allow for the heroes to be "fallen angels"/anti-heroes. The X-Files has lost something, but every once in a while it can still make me go, "BLEEP". And Frontline continues to throw enough stuff in my face that I have to think about doing the right thing.