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The Secret Origin of Windows

Posted by Soulskill on from the sounds-like-a-comic-book-character dept.

harrymcc writes "Windows has been so dominant for so long that it's easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft — and that its immediate successors were considered stopgaps until OS/2 was everywhere. Tandy Trower, the product manager who finally got Windows 1.0 out the door a quarter century ago, has written a memoir of the experience. (He thought being assigned the much-maligned project was Microsoft's fiendish way of trying to get rid of him.) The story involves such still-significant figures as Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, and Nathan Myhrvold; Trower left Microsoft only in November of 2009 after 28 years with the company."

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  1. Still mocked, and rightly so. by newdsfornerds · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your Windows box is a fun playground for criminals of all stripes, from script kiddies to mafiosos. Always will be.

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  2. Once again Inigo Montoya says: by ClosedSource · · Score: 0, Troll

    You keep using that word "vaporware". I do not think it means what you think it means. ...

  3. Re:I never could get it load on my Timex-Sinclair by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, bit shift your A2 register, you MSFT shill.

    Seriously, you probably don't even know that China owns Lenova (IBM thinkpad) now.

    I was hand-soldering S100 bus computers and tuning my floppy drives with a screwdriver before you were in diapers.

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  4. Re:I never could get it load on my Timex-Sinclair by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you admit you're not old enough to actually have been working in the field back then?

    LOL. You microserfs are fun.

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