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> it was sabotaged by Synosfky and friends Is this described anywhere in detail?
by SSLy 3y ago
> it was sabotaged by Synosfky and friends
Is this described anywhere in detail?
- pjmlp 3y agoYes, basically when Longhorn started to fail to meet expectations, there were two possible ways, do what Google did with Android, push forward no matter what to make it work, or forcing a rewrite into something else, which is what WinDev ended up doing. "What Really Happened with Vista" https://hackernoon.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-4ca7ffb5a1a https://hackernoon.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-4ca7f... "Turning to the past to power Windows’ future: An in-depth look at WinRT" https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt-everything-old-is-new-again/ https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt...