Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> It's also the case that even a small company can make a difference in
>> Microsoft's stuff. Like the company that did the first defrag program for
>> NT designed the APIs for that and told MS how to write it.
> 
> Then they bought the company?

I think they still license the defragger. The company is still around 
because they make defraggers for other operating systems too.

> Or did they just make their own defragmenter and put it in the OS to ensure 
> other companies selling defragmenters go out of business? :P

It might have been that in Vista and later, but until then it was licensed.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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