Former Microsoft Insider Speaks Out
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| Internet Explorer was an attempt to counter a "threat" against the
| Windows platform. During the interview, he talked about the attack
| on Netscape. He said, "Steve Ballmer was hammering on BillG about
| how the Internet could make Windows irrelevant. BillG wasn't getting
| it; he was focused on the Windows apps. Then, BillG woke up and saw
| Java running on Netscape, which, of course, ran on many platforms,
| including our arch-enemy at that time, OS/2." It started out as an
| HTML rendering application, but Internet Explorer grew larger with
| OLE 2.0, which became a great security concern as this former
| insider, along with other developers, had plenty of experience
| fighting viruses, and they saw it as another opening for virus
| writers, especially since for all intents and purposes from
| Windows 95 on, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer were one
| and the same.
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| During the later part of the 1990's, Sum Yung Gai left Microsoft
| to finish his degree. When asked how they felt about his departure,
| he said, "I went back to finish my college education, and none of us
| ever suspected I'd get into this GNU thing or Free Software.
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http://www.thenixedreport.com/articles/tholbrook2/exmicrosofty.html
Long essay. Much more in there.
Related:
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent Sunday, October 06, 1996 11:54 AM
| To: Bob Muglia
| Cc: Aaron Contorer; Richard Fade; Steven Sinofsky; Paul Maritz; Nathan
| Myhrvold; Brad Silverberg; Adam Bosworth
| Subject: Access, Internet studio, VB and other overlapping products
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| Why is the difference between Internet studio and Access? I can't detect
| any reasonable difference. Internet studio has taken an approach of
| putting onto HTML pages the most ugly Microsoft garbage ever seen since
| COM/OLE programming in C++ was declared a success in order to block
| language invocation. i am still blown away by seeing all those ugly
| PARAM statements in the HTML totally confusing anyone who tries to do
| anything. If something isn't part of the WYSIWYG output then it should
| be succinct and understandable. This was the opposite of that.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02563.pdf
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