Microsoft Engineer "Steve Ballmer" ? Ballmer was on the business side of things at Microsoft. He didn't write code.
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 11:27 AM M. J. Bethlehem via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > The original plan was to let Windows fade away after 2.x; there was an > > engineer at Microsoft that mostly improved Windows by himself enough to > run > > all of the Microsoft Office components at the same time (a difficult, if > > not impossible feat under Windows 2.x of any flavor) and got an > executive's > > attention shortly after the OS/2 launch with his experimental Windows > build > > that it caused Microsoft to repivot around DOS and Windows again. > > > The Microsoft Engineer in question was Steve Ballmer. There is an anekdote > about this in the book "Unauthorized Windows 95" by Andrew Schulman. > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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