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Can you expand on the "knife the baby" move? That one's not in my playbook. Is a riff off the Solomon/baby story?

http://www.businessweek.com/microsoft/updates/up81105b.htm

i have to laugh at this. the main point of quicktime was to work as bait and switch. and microsoft having invented the tactics, defended against it.

after microsft lost that one, apple itself made quicktime (and then itunes) incredible slow and bogus on windows. while previous versions were just fine.

Did that really happen? My iTunes library lived primarily on a Windows box until 2 years ago and the only weirdness I can think of was Apple breaking some of Microsoft's windowing conventions.

To be fair, the MS Office experience on OS X is about the same: pretty normal with some things slightly off.

Yes. Quicktime back then was like having AIDS; you didn't want your friends to find out it was on your box.

if itunes and quicktime was never slow on your windows box, then i can say with certainty that you changed computers at least every year and always to expensive models.

sp332 got it. They also used "knife the baby" internally to kill any project that could impact Windows/Office.

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