020. Innovation versus Shipping: The Cairo Project
Windows Cairo is the second generation of Windows NT…the first Microsoft operating system that realizes the “Information at Your Fingertips” vision. –Windows Cairo product planning document
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As technical assistant I spent most of my time navigating our operating system strategy and progress during late-1992 to mid-1994. There were three main OS development projects going on at the time. Chicago was the code name of the successor to Windows 3.1 (shipped April 1992), rooted in the MS-DOS architecture and trying t…