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Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.
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FreeDOS 1.3 Has Arrived, Still Runs MS-DOS Games and Apps
It still has excellent compatibility with MS-DOS software, including Windows 3.1 and earlier, and many of the built-in ...
Microsoft’s worst software flop was secretly packed with Windows for years
A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data ...