LXer: The Secret Origin of Windows
 

Published at LXer:

Few people understand Microsoft better than Tandy Trower, who worked at the company from 1981-2009. Trower was the product manager who ultimately shipped Windows 1.0, an endeavour that some advised him was a path toward a ruined career. Four product managers had already tried and failed to ship Windows before him, and he initially thought that he was being assigned an impossible task. In this follow-up to yesterday’s story on the future of Windows, Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in transforming Windows from vaporware into a product that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world, 25 years after it was first released.

[Not Linux or FOSS related, but interesting history I think - Tracyanne]


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Isn't it rather, from vaporware into vaporware marketed as a product.

I believe vaporware into malware marketed as a product is a more apt description.

I'm not sure if the first versions were malware, but later versions sure were.