Most of_you might now know about_Microsoft Bob, Bob_was intended to be a friendly user interface on top of Windows 3.1. It was received_very poorly by both consumer and critics. Some media even claimed that_Bob_is named one of the worst technology products of all time. Internally,_Bob’s internal code name was “Utopia” and it was discontinued by Microsoft in 1998. Even though you think that Bob is dead right now, its legacy still lives on in the form of code. It turns out Bob was actually more useful dead than alive. When you intend to distribute your software on a CD, one thing you have to worry about is making sure your product actually fits on a single CD. Fortunately, it so happened that even after taking into account the disk space required for translations, support tools, and the other stuff that has to go onto the Windows XP CD, there was still about 30 megabytes of storage capacity remaining. The people who worry about these sorts of things figured, well, we...

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