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020. Innovation versus Shipping: The Cairo Project
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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

Steven Sinofsky
Apr 19, 2021
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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…

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