The History of .NET [video]

For one thing, Bill Gates is pictured in his deposition for US v. Microsoft with David Boies, not “US Senators”.

For another, Windows 2000 is described as being released contemporaneously with Intel’s Pentium, when they appeared nearly 7 years apart.

There’s also a very strange take on US v. Microsoft generally. If you actually watch Bill Gates’ deposition (recommended!) it’s clear that the focus of the government’s case was alleged attempts to use the dominance of Windows to crush Sun’s Java and Netscape’s Navigator, not undocumented APIs as the speaker claims.

And the description of the collapse of Longhorn is odd. I’ve never before heard the theory that the team was inadequately resourced due to the requirements of Windows XP SP2. Also an interesting take that Vista only got poor reviews because it was released too early in order to meet enterprise contract commitments.

Finally, I have to question a supposedly insider history of .NET that isn’t rich enough in detail to include “COOL”.

Also a more recent one from NDC London Jan 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trHTLFNFoWk

On a side note, I wasn't aware that the agreement with the US government was meant to expire after ten years. Is it a coincidence that right after that we got the Windows Store push?