No it was not a coincidence as testified by Eric in his interview with the University of Washington business school.

He actually comes across a mix of interesting and unpleasant in this interview. It takes me back to the nineties when he and St. John were routinely pissing off people including myself.

But in the end people are complicated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZWUweIIEU

Of all the things microsoft have done, using a vaguely insensitive name is not really that worrying to me.

Chicago I think was windows 95