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Wow. He went from this (from Wikipedia) > In 1996, Russinovich discovered that altering two values in the Windows Registry of the Workstation edition of Windo
by scarface74 4y ago
Wow.
He went from this (from Wikipedia)
> In 1996, Russinovich discovered that altering two values in the Windows Registry of the Workstation edition of Windows NT 4.0 would change the installation so it was recognized as a Windows NT Server and allow the installation of Microsoft BackOffice products which were licensed only for the Server edition.[7]
To being the CTO of Azure.
- userbinator 4y agoMS basically hired him and paid him to shut up. Now he's just toeing the company line.
- scarface74 4y agoMaking him CTO of your fastest growing division is a lot to go through to make him shut up.
- userbinator 4y agoHe wasn't hired to be the CTO immediately.
- scarface74 4y agoThats true and kind of the point. They didn’t keep promoting him just to shut em up.
- stuaxo 4y agoWould love it if he has made sure there is a similar secret switch in Azure.