Stephen Tolouse (known around Microsoft as “stepto”, pronounced “step-toe”) from the Microsoft Security Response Center reminisces about Windows 95 RTM.
Stephen mentions that “the build numbers were artificially inflated to reach 950”. There’s actually a technical reason for this inflation, which I intend to write about when I have the time to give the topic the treatment it deserves.
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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