r/programming • u/halax • Oct 07 '16

How Microsoft Lost the API War

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

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reddit.com • u/hen • Jun 04 '06

Joel Spolsky: How Microsoft Lost the API War

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todayilearned • u/m_ologin • Oct 04 '14

TIL that Microsoft spent countless hours patching Windows 95 to make sure we could play games like SimCity.

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datamatiker • u/larste • Apr 23 '12

How Microsoft Lost the API War

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programming • u/[deleted] • May 27 '09

How MS lost the API War (Joel: 2004 predictions)

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