Related Research Articles
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users, and is available for any devices running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000, or Windows Me that meet the new Windows XP system requirements.
The Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) is a series of technical conferences and workshops, where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Windows devices.
Richard Reeves Brodie is an American computer programmer and author. He wrote the first version of Microsoft Word. After leaving Microsoft, he became a motivational speaker and authored two books.
Gustav Hansen is a Danish professional poker player from Copenhagen, Denmark who has lived in Monaco since 2003. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, one WSOP bracelet and the 2007 Aussie Millions main event, and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. Before turning to playing poker professionally in 1997, Hansen was already a world class backgammon player and a youth tennis champion.
Thomas James "T. J." Cloutier is a professional poker player from Richardson, Texas. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006. Cloutier was also briefly a professional football player in the Canadian Football League.
Barry Greenstein is an American professional poker player and former mathematics postgraduate student. He has won a number of major events, including three at the World Series of Poker and two on the World Poker Tour. Greenstein donates his profit from tournament winnings to charities, primarily Children Incorporated, earning him the nickname "the Robin Hood of poker". He was elected into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2011.
Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights in 2000. It is estimated that billions of people have seen the picture, possibly making it the most viewed photograph in history.
Johnson "John" Juanda is an Indonesian professional poker player of Chinese descent based in Tokyo, Japan. He has won five World Series of Poker bracelets.
Lee Watkinson is an American professional poker player, originally from Longbranch, Washington.
Indeo Video is a family of audio and video formats and codecs first released in 1992, and designed for real-time video playback on desktop CPUs. While its original version was related to Intel's DVI video stream format, a hardware-only codec for the compression of television-quality video onto compact discs, Indeo was distinguished by being one of the first codecs allowing full-speed video playback without using hardware acceleration. Also unlike Cinepak and TrueMotion S, the compression used the same Y'CbCr 4:2:0 colorspace as the ITU's H.261 and ISO's MPEG-1. Indeo use was free of charge to allow for broadest usage.
Barry Shulman is an American poker player who has enjoyed success in competitive poker tournaments over the past 15 years, and is the CEO of CardPlayer Magazine.
William Chen is an American quantitative analyst, poker player, and software designer.
Steven Jay Sinofsky is an American businessman, investor and software engineer. He served as president of the Windows Division at Microsoft from July 2009 until his resignation on November 13, 2012.
Ciarán O'Leary is an Irish professional poker player who resides in Seattle, Washington.
Windows XP, which is the next version of Windows NT after Windows 2000 and the successor to the consumer-oriented Windows Me, has been released in several editions since its original release in 2001.
Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which was released on July 27, 1993, as Windows NT 3.1. Originally made for the workstation, business and server markets, the Windows NT line was made available to consumers with the release of Windows XP in 2001. The underlying technology of Windows NT continues to live on to this day, with the latest version of Windows based on Windows NT being Windows 11.
Brian Rast is a professional poker player living in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Joe Belfiore is an American business executive who has held various roles at Microsoft since August 1990, mostly in the field of user experience. A frequent speaker, Belfiore has appeared at many Microsoft conferences, often giving demos on stage and/or acting as a spokesperson for the company. In 2018, he was named the #1 Microsoft Influencer for fans to follow on Twitter. In 2004, he gave a TED Talk in-person at the TED Conference in Monterey,CA. In summer 2023 he retired from Microsoft and is now active as chair of a non-profit board.
Scott Blumstein is an American poker player from Morristown, New Jersey. In 2017, he won the World Series of Poker Main Event for $8,150,000.
Moshe Dunie is an Israeli-born American executive and investor in the Greater Seattle Area best known for his executive roles at Microsoft in 1988–1999, culminating as Vice President of the Windows Division. Moshe Dunie is serving on the Board of Governors of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Dunie served as the president of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Seattle from 2006–2009 and served on the American Jewish Committee National Board. In his role, Dunie interacted with political and business leaders around the world promoting human rights. At Microsoft, Moshe Dunie was responsible for the releases of Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 partnering with Dave Cutler. Then as VP of the Windows Operating System Division, Moshe Dunie led the teams that delivered Windows 98, and took Windows 2000 to its final beta release. Moshe Dunie oversaw over 3,000 full-time division engineers and 1,500 contractors. He collaborated with partners such as Intel, PC OEMs, application developers and enterprise customers, initiating a Rapid Deployment Program and extensive beta testing. Microsoft Israel R&D centre and engineering groups in Europe and Asia reported to Dunie as an international extension of the Windows division.
References
- ↑ "Distinguished alumni". centralia.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
- ↑ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-valentine/8/a08/5b2 [ self-published source ]
- ↑ "Brian Valentine: Senior Vice President - Windows Division, Microsoft Corp". American Association of Community Colleges. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26.
- ↑ "The Motivator Behind the Windows 2000 Development Team". Microsoft . Redmond. February 16, 2000. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012.
- ↑ "The Motivator Behind the Windows 2000 Development Team". Microsoft . Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2014-09-26.
- ↑ "Microsoft Names Steven Sinofsky and Brian Valentine Vice President". 21 December 1998.
- ↑ "The Motivator Behind the Windows 2000 Development Team", Microsoft.com
- ↑ "Windows XP has saved industry money, says Microsoft". ZDNet .
- ↑ "Home".
- ↑ "Veteran Seattle tech exec Brian Valentine retires from Amazon". 17 January 2014.
- ↑ "Seattle Start-Up Factory Hires Former Amazon and Microsoft Executive". 30 September 2014.
- 1 2 "Brian Valentine's profile on The Hendon Mob". The Hendon Mob Poker Database.
| People |
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facilities | |||||
| Products and services | |||||
| Litigation | |||||
| Other | |||||
| Unions | |||||
