[steve1977]

I know there are many legends like this, but I wouldn't be too sure about that.

For example, most of the authors of the old-time classics were not employed by Microsoft when they wrote their books. I think Charles Petzold (Windows Programming) was a freelancer, Jeffrey Richter (MFC) was working a company called Wintellect, David Solomon (Inside Windows NT) had a seminar company (Solsem), I think initially primarily for VMS and Mark Russinovich (Inside Windows 2000) at Winternals Softwre.

[iKlsR]

I've been digging for the article since morning, iirc it was something around directx, will update this comment when and if I can find it. It's not this link but it also touches on some of the stuff on this node https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/25955/did...