maddog: Letter to InfoWorld: Linux 64-bit since 1995!

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 8, 2006, at 09:12, Jon maddog Hall wrote:

> But the work eventually had to be done, didn't it?

Absolutely.  But you're thinking about the right thing to do from a 
product prospective rather than maximizing quarterly profits.  Sure, 
they finally had to clean up that code to get the recent 64-bit code 
out the door, but they also sat on the money it would have taken to do 
it in 1994 for a decade, probably at least quadrupling the value of 
that money.  See also Windows security.

Stop thinking of Microsoft as a technology company. :)

-Bill

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