Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen

From	Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen
Date	2026-05-08 14:14 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Thu, 7 May 2026 13:29:17 -0700
"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/6/2026 1:43 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft
> > and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen
> >     https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298
> > 
> > “I’ve written in the past about the cultural mismatch between
> > Microsoft and IBM during the collaboration on OS/2, with the
> > Microsofties viewing their IBM colleagues as mired in pointless
> > bureaucracy and the IBM folks viewing Microsofties as undisciplined
> > hackers.¹”
> > 
> > “One of many points of mismatch was the organizational structure.”
> > 
> > “A colleague recalls that while he was assigned to the IBM offices
> > in Boca Raton, Florida, there was a dispute over what key should be
> > used to move from one field to another in dialog boxes. The folks
> > at IBM were not happy with my colleague’s decision to use the TAB
> > key, so they asked him to escalate the issue to his manager back in
> > Redmond.”
> > 
> > Ok, that resolution is funny.
> > 
> > I often wonder how life would have been if I had taken that job
> > offer with Microsoft in 1987.  
> Fwiw, I always try to setup my editors to treat the TAB key as four 
> spaces....

I see no relationship between original post of Lynn and your reply.
Since it is hard to believe that you reading comprehension is so poor,
the most likely explanation would be that you didn't read original post
at all and most likely did not even read a subject line to its end.

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“A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-05-06 15:43 -0500
  Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-05-07 13:29 -0700
    Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-08 07:57 +0100
    Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-05-08 14:14 +0300
      Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-05-08 13:29 -0700
  Re: �A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures� by Raymond Chen pyotr filipivich <phamp@mindspring.com> - 2026-05-08 16:18 -0700
    Re: A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures by Raymond Chen Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-05-08 18:32 -0500
      Re: A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures by Raymond Chen Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-05-09 01:50 +0200
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