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Zac Bowden

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Former windows chief shared confidential microsoft emails with epstein as leaders scrambled to contain the surface rt disaster | History Defined

Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, speaks during a press conference to display Microsoft new tablet computer and Windows 8 software at 1933 Old Millfun on October 23, 2012 in Shanghai, China.

Microsoft's former Windows head, Steven Sinofsky, has been revealed to have shared confidential email chains and sought career and PR advice from Jeffrey Epstein over a decade ago. The latest batch of Epstein files released last week reveals that Sinofsky was taking advice from Epstein on how to negotiate his retirement package after the debacle that was Windows 8.

The files (via Bloomberg) also reveal that Sinofsky shared with Epstein a confidential email exchange between himself, then CEO Steve Ballmer, and then COO Kevin Turner from November 2012 that reveals the moment it became clear that Surface RT was not going to be the success story that Microsoft believed it would be.

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