“I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go…. At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.”
Microsoft exec Jim Allchin, on his company’s demands for free Windows desktop icons in exchange for granting a license to PC makers, eWeek, 6 August 2001
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