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by aargh_aargh 820 days 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_plum...
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lgunsch 820 days 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.
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xnx 820 days ago
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39587379

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