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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
by eastbound 4y ago
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.
- benjaminpv 4y agoRaymond 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.
- SturgeonsLaw 4y agoMove slow and don't break things
- withinboredom 4y agoIf you want to make the big bucks, move fast and don’t break things.
- mavhc 4y agoWhen people don't have the ability to update for very low cost
- imron 4y ago> 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/larryosterman/one-in-a-million-is-next-tuesday https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...