“Cairo worked so well to suppress competition and distract from the quality of the products Microsoft actually shipped in the 90s, that Microsoft reused the same strategy in the next decade.” A trip down memory lane: cairo, taligent, pink, and even a mention of BOB! “Fraud as a business plan,” indeed.
And since there’s a nice graphic of the yellow brick road on the previous link: “The lion costume made of real animal skin and worn in the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz sold at an auction Friday for $700,000 US”