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

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On 5/8/2026 4:14 AM, Michael S wrote:
> 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.
> 

Eat the TAB? ;^)

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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
        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 21:00 -0500
    Re: "A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures" by Raymond Chen Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-05-09 07:19 -0400
    Re: A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures by Raymond Chen "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-05-09 13:58 +0200
  Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-05-09 16:14 -0700

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