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| Topic | The origin of Xbox is pretty fascinating |
| Darmik 02/13/18 1:12:45 AM #84: | People in Microsoft yelled at each other. A lot. St John made a career of tearing people down publicly and ruining their credibility. Even if they were his boss. He was that good at backing up his shit with facts. It wasn't just him. Everyone at the company had a story about Bill Gates yelling. It was a part of the culture. The trick accordingly to St John is yelling with a smile. Like you're enjoying it and asking for them to figure out a defense. This is something that's often not stated in stories about Microsoft. St John moved to games. Specifically he was the guy who had to figure out transitioning developers away from DOS. Windows 95 was going to break a lot of exisiting DOS games and he had to convince developers to try out DOSBox. But there was an effort in Microsoft to save incompatible DOS games. It was up to one guy (Raymond Chen) to patch DOS games to work. He did this for thousands of games. He was the hero that let people play Ultima 7 and 8 on Windows 95. --- Kind Regards, Darmik ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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