{"id":99565,"date":"2018-08-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=99565"},"modified":"2019-03-13T00:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:38:41","slug":"20180824-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180824-00\/?p=99565\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windows 95 team were proud slackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

During one of the many (many) team meetings during the course of Windows 95, there was a slide that showed something-or-other broken down by job discipline. There was a column for developers, another for quality assurance, and a third column labeled Slackers<\/i>. <\/p>\n

The presenter was one of the lead program managers and explained that the Slackers<\/i> column represented program managers and other management overhead. (This is the same person who famously predicted<\/a> that the project would ship by June 1993, “Otherwise, I’ll be applying for a job at McDonalds.”) <\/p>\n

As I’ve noted a few times before, the Windows 95 team enjoyed<\/a> self-deprecating humor<\/a>, and it wasn’t long before the epithet Slacker<\/i> was adopted through the entire team. <\/p>\n

We even had shirts made. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Windows 95 released to manufacturing on this day 23 years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another adopted slight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-99565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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