Interview with MS' economist

[Marcus Patino]

>
>You could always get specification documents on Windows API's and Microsoft
>Word file formats from MSDN, but they are always incomplete and misleading.
>They are carefully crafted to not give key information necessary to create
>Windows emulators and compatible software, and in some cases are pure lies
>about the underlying system.

There was a book that I had just read "Renegades of the Empire".  It talks 
about the development of the 3D part of windows.  The amusing point that 
will stick with me for a long time is one of the software evagelists 
complaining to the programmers about some API's they were not told about 
that could have made some of the lives of those they were evagelising MS to 
easier.  The response this one gentlemen got from the programmers was that 
they (the programmers) thought that the 3rd partiers didn't need the info.  
This same evangelist soon found out that sometimes different program groups 
within the beast could not get the API info from other groups.  And of 
course we all know that it is supported by the higher ups - otherwise this 
email chain would never have happened :)

M

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