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

From	Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.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 18:32 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 5/8/2026 6:18 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> on Wed, 6 May 2026 15:43:58
> -0500 typed in alt.comp.os.windows-11  the following:
>> “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 just wish "they" had left the Tab key above the shift key.  I'm
> still hitting CAPS LOCK when I meant to tab over after all these
> years.
...
Me too.  I am in the midst of converting 800,000 lines of F77 code to 
C++.  I hit the dadgum Capslock key all the time instead of the Tab key 
whilst reformatting my new C++ code.  And I have been using this 1991 
Northgate Omnikey/102 keyboard since 1992.

Lynn

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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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