Acknowledgments
Microsoft Windows has always played a key role in my life. For a time, I was suspended between the black screen of MS-DOS and the bright colorful screen of that other tempting new operating system. However, when it became clear that I needed to program computers for a living, I suddenly made up my mind and choose Windows as my operating system. And so it is to this day.
There’s an invisible thread that ties Windows releases and the significant events of my life. I was married to Silvia in 1995, one month after the release of Windows 95. Our first baby—a boy, Francesco—coincidently arrived at the same time as the release of Windows 98. My wife and I were signing the contract for our first house when Microsoft shipped Windows 2000. ...
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