Vista was late for 2 years because of Jobs's draw
Sounds like editorial tabloid. I do not know whether to believe or not, but this is what caught my eye.
Former employee of Microsoft COSD (Core Operating Systems Division - Windows Developer Division) Clarg Kreber, in an interview with Wired Magazine journalist Hugh McLachlan, said that the real culprits of the Redmond Five-Year Plan were exactly the drawing of Steve Jobs.
In 2001, Microsoft released a commercially very successful Windows XP, but the company’s management was haunted by the new Mac OS X 10.1, codenamed Puma - it was thought that this development could have a negative impact on future Windows sales, and no one was embarrassed by the fact that Apple was and, in general, to this day remains a tiny player in the personal computer market.
At that time, Bill Gates was the lead software architect and, on the rights of a true Microsoft executive, secretly contracted some company engaged in "industrial research" to get the source code of the Apple operating system, which was actively worked on in Cupertino - it was OS X 10.2. In fact, Gates was going to defeat Apple with her own weapon through industrial espionage - a rather strange decision for a company that has already won 90% of the computer market.
Well, going straight to the point: Apple security got to know the Gates “mole” after three months of its work in Cupertino and, of course, immediately reported on the enemy spy upstairs. Steve Jobs, as a master of practical jokes, gave instructions to translate the source code of the old System 7 operating system into INTERCAL. The result was recorded on a CD, signed the compact “OS X 10.2 Build 9822” and threw the blank “Mole”. Mole swallowed the bait safely and shipped the CD to Microsoft.
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A short excerpt from Wikipedia: " INTERCAL is one of the oldest esoteric programming languages and, at the same time, a parody of FORTRAN and COBOL, saturated with paradoxical constructions, created in 1972 by Princeton University students Don Woods and James Lyon." With INTERCAL, even the simplest programs become incredibly difficult to understand code
However, Gates, apparently, was not able to appreciate the joke of Apple's executive director. He gave the developers of the COSD copies of the “source code” and ordered to copy the functions from there to the newly launched Longhorn project. The programmers decided that the authorities simply joked and perceived the task as a well-deserved rest after hard work on Windows XP.
So the programmers at Microsoft tried to translate the clumsy code into the freshly baked mega-project Longhorn.
Personally, I do not believe. Too funny to be true. And on the calendar on March 6, and not on April 1, or was it a billet for the holiday?
What does habrachelovek think?
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Former employee of Microsoft COSD (Core Operating Systems Division - Windows Developer Division) Clarg Kreber, in an interview with Wired Magazine journalist Hugh McLachlan, said that the real culprits of the Redmond Five-Year Plan were exactly the drawing of Steve Jobs.
In 2001, Microsoft released a commercially very successful Windows XP, but the company’s management was haunted by the new Mac OS X 10.1, codenamed Puma - it was thought that this development could have a negative impact on future Windows sales, and no one was embarrassed by the fact that Apple was and, in general, to this day remains a tiny player in the personal computer market.
At that time, Bill Gates was the lead software architect and, on the rights of a true Microsoft executive, secretly contracted some company engaged in "industrial research" to get the source code of the Apple operating system, which was actively worked on in Cupertino - it was OS X 10.2. In fact, Gates was going to defeat Apple with her own weapon through industrial espionage - a rather strange decision for a company that has already won 90% of the computer market.
Well, going straight to the point: Apple security got to know the Gates “mole” after three months of its work in Cupertino and, of course, immediately reported on the enemy spy upstairs. Steve Jobs, as a master of practical jokes, gave instructions to translate the source code of the old System 7 operating system into INTERCAL. The result was recorded on a CD, signed the compact “OS X 10.2 Build 9822” and threw the blank “Mole”. Mole swallowed the bait safely and shipped the CD to Microsoft.
')
A short excerpt from Wikipedia: " INTERCAL is one of the oldest esoteric programming languages and, at the same time, a parody of FORTRAN and COBOL, saturated with paradoxical constructions, created in 1972 by Princeton University students Don Woods and James Lyon." With INTERCAL, even the simplest programs become incredibly difficult to understand code
However, Gates, apparently, was not able to appreciate the joke of Apple's executive director. He gave the developers of the COSD copies of the “source code” and ordered to copy the functions from there to the newly launched Longhorn project. The programmers decided that the authorities simply joked and perceived the task as a well-deserved rest after hard work on Windows XP.
So the programmers at Microsoft tried to translate the clumsy code into the freshly baked mega-project Longhorn.
Personally, I do not believe. Too funny to be true. And on the calendar on March 6, and not on April 1, or was it a billet for the holiday?
What does habrachelovek think?
The original is here .
Taken with mactime .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/3885/
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