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According toPCWorld, Microsoft only sold 30,000 copies of Bob.
Microsoft Bob was forced to bite the dust in Microsoft’s Graveyard around the same time Windows 95 shipped.
Bill Gates holding a copy of Windows XP.
The tech giant seized this opportunity and included an encrypted version of Microsoft Bob.
“He took all the floppy disk images and combined them into one big file,“stated Chen.
Thats what went into the unused space as ballast data on the Windows XP CD.”
Windows XP advertised before its launch.
“Bob was actually more useful dead than alive,” Chen concluded.
“I did what Microsoft couldn’t.”
If you had the OEM blob, you could use an OEM license key.
Windows XP advertised before its launch.
If you had a retail blob, you had to use a retail key.”
