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Microsoft’s worst software flop was secretly lurking in Windows for years
A former Windows developer reveals why Windows was dragging around 30 MB of completely useless data for many years. The data ...
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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.