Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

In 1992, Borland CEO Philippe Kahn held a developer's conference in Palm Desert that was infamously infiltrated by Microsoft. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Borland alleged that Microsoft employees:

  1. Tried to get the developers drunk

  2. Lured them into busses and drove them off site

  3. Dressed them in Hawaiian shirts

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

In 1992, Borland accused Microsoft of orchestrating an infiltration of their developer conference in Palm Desert. The allegations (reported in the San Francisco Chronicle) claimed Microsoft employees got developers drunk, lured them onto buses and took them off-site, and even dressed them in Hawaiian shirts - essentially trying to sabotage Borland's event by any means necessary. This was part of the intense rivalry between Borland and Microsoft in the early 1990s software market.

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