clipka wrote:
> Darren New schrieb:
> 
>>> (Not developed by MS themselves, btw.)
>>
>> That may have been true a long time ago, but I don't expect it's true 
>> any more.
> 
> Vice versa actually: They used to develop their own defrag, 

No, they used Executive Software's DiskKeeper stuff. MS developed all the 
APIs and such. Executive Software just wrote the user interface part (and of 
course provided info on how the API should be designed). I'm pretty sure 
nobody outside MS wrote software that frobs the NTFS file system to 
rearrange blocks.  (Granted, MS might have hired an outside company to 
develop that, but it wasn't sold independently, so I don't count that.)

As for the defraggers on pre-NTFS file systems, I wouldn't really guess, but 
Executive Software made the UI for the NT defragger.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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