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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by eastbound on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:56PM (#32889722)
My astonishment is that Microsoft knew about SimCity. I was 15 in 1995 and I thought the world was so big that Microsoft couldn’t possibly know about the myriad of software that their OS could run.

It turns out the world was so small that Microsoft could, probably, inventory less than a hundred products that made 99% users happy.

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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by benjaminpv on Sunday September 18, 2022 @03:52PM (#32890878)
Raymond Chen talked about how periodically the devs were tasked with getting a handful of software purchased at CompUSA or w/e out of a grocery cart, opening them up, installing them and testing that they worked with the then-unreleased Win95.
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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by SturgeonsLaw on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:49PM (#32892997)
Move slow and don't break things
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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by withinboredom on Sunday September 18, 2022 @09:03PM (#32893100)
If you want to make the big bucks, move fast and don’t break things.
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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by mavhc on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:15PM (#32914800)
When people don't have the ability to update for very low cost
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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by imron on Monday September 19, 2022 @12:44AM (#32894365)
> I thought the world was so big that Microsoft couldn’t possibly know about the myriad of software that their OS could run.

At large enough scale, 1 in a million is next Tuesday - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...

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