Sounds like perhaps an elaborate hoax, but if not, no wonder Bill Gates was forced into semi-retirement. Funny stuff.
The rantings of Clinton Forbes Over five years elapsed between the release of Windows XP and Windows Vista, the longest product-cycle in the history of Microsoft's flagship product. Today a former Microsoft employee, a very disgruntled former employee, revealed to Wired Magazine why the company encountered such a large number of problems delivering their latest operating-system release - Apple Computer was to blame. Clarg Creber, a member of Microsoft's Core Operating Systems Division (COSD) for eight years until 2005, spoke to Wired's Hugh MacLachlan for their upcoming April print edition....
At the time Bill Gates was 'chief software architect' and of course was still pulling the strings despite Steve Ballmer being CEO. Gates employed an 'industry research' firm, a company specializing in corporate espionage, to steal the source code of Apple's work-in-progress, OS X version 10.2. He planned to beat Apple to market with Apple's own new features. It was a very strange plan considering that Microsoft already owned over 90% of the desktop market.
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after three months of posing as a systems programmer, Apple's security department discovered the Microsoft 'mole' and brought him to the attention of Apple management. Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO and long-time geek-prankster, arranged for the source-code of Apple's obsolete System 7 operating-system to be machine-translated to INTERCAL. A CD with the joke operating-system was marked with the text 'OS X 10.2 Build 9822' and left in the mole's trash can. Apparently he took the bait and delivered the disc to Gates.
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