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…I was going to ask you, would it have played out differently if you’d taken this approach with mobile? We did break it out, but we constrained it with Windows. We broke Windows NT out and constrained it with Windows. It worked fine because Windows belong. How you do those incubations, in this case I just said, look. It’ll get probably subsumed. I don’t know. Partly, Ray wanted some operating control over the thing, and putting it under [...] would’ve made it harder for Ray. Obviously, it was less palatable. I’m not sure Cutler would’ve gone to work on it if it was all server tools. But it was the right thing to do even though it was “part of the future of server. ” It was the future of server and tools, essentially. And so this is pretty lost in the common narrative. If this is 2006, that is 7–8 years before you left Microsoft.…

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