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I owned zip folders for a while during the windows Vista days. I could have sworn the code was originally purchased, not written by someone at Microsoft. Honest

I owned zip folders for a while during the windows Vista days. I could have sworn the code was originally purchased, not written by someone at Microsoft. Honestly, it looked like it had been run through an obfuscator. I assumed that the original author had done that to ensure it was difficult for Microsoft to make changes/improvements. I still have nightmares about that code. :)

shp0ngle 3y ago
It was purchased.
aargh_aargh 3y ago
I may be misremembering, but Dave has spoken on his Dave's Garage Youtube channel about running a separate software business selling small utilities and later selling some of them to Microsoft. This might have been one of them. A quick search confirms that he also claims that here: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plummer_author_of_windows_task_manager/ https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/kfpjhg/i_am_dave_plum...
- lgunsch 3y ago
  He talks about it in one of his videos. The zip directory was a product of a side hustle of his, which Microsoft then bought out. In the video he comments how much easier it was to integrate when he had access to more internal apis.
- xnx 3y ago
  Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39587379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39587379 21 days ago | 121 comments