Symptom or Hallmark of Ponzi Schemes: Microsoft Says It Gains Over 100 Million Dollars in "Goodwill" and Its Speculative "Value" Nearly Doubled to $119,329,000,000 in the Past Year Alone
Microsoft's "BALANCE SHEETS" dated yesterday and released last night when "the market" was closing, newsrooms shutting: (URL is microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/fy-2025-Q3/press-release-webcast)
Total liabilities are now over $240,000,000,000.
How does a company double its so-called 'goodwill'* while firing tens of thousands of workers and 'shafting' clients with price hikes, mass surveillance like "Recall", broken patches, and support of fascism?
We get it, Microsoft is good at borrowing money and laying off workers.
Microsoft is (as expected) faking "results" again, using obviously meaningless buzzwords. It can just rebrand things as "cloud". It also rebrands things as "hey hi" now (because it's more hip and vague). The media plays along with it, despite many things that Microsoft has long called "AI" being just plagiarism or Microsoft using others people's code without permission by removing the licence (then calling it "hey hi" [1, 2]).
Where's the investigative press these days? Media inaction is an enabler of fraud. █
"Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of $18 billion, according to Smithers."
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* Speaking of the 90s, good will (or goodwill) etc. an associate said that if they are banking on 'good will', then maybe people can revisit what's left of old 1990s articles about Bill Gates and him being the most hated man in tech if not also the planet. The associate says it was so mainstream that even the Simpsons covered it and recall the "more evil than satan himself" search results in Google's first years. There's also the money (see old articles) spent on reputation laundering; these belie the assertion that Microsoft has accumulated any "good will".
Through revisionist history, articles now call the "more evil than satan himself" a "Google bomb", even though it was organic according to Google execs' public statements at the time. Remember Bush and miserable failure? That was back when search engines accepted limited regex search queries. It'll be impossible to find the press releases on it from Google.