[eastbound]

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]

Raymond 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]

Move slow and don't break things

[withinboredom]

If you want to make the big bucks, move fast and don’t break things.

[mavhc]

When people don't have the ability to update for very low cost

[imron]

> 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/larryosterma...