Microsoft buried it. The lead engineer, a reclusive systems thinker named Lenore V., left the industry and became a clockmaker in rural Wisconsin. But in the late 2010s, a collector found a CD-R in a surplus bin at the University of Chicago. The label, handwritten in faded marker:
Why was it killed? Not by bugs. By psychology. optimum windows chicago
And below it, the uptime counter, which never resets, reads: 27 years, 134 days, 9 hours, 14 minutes. Microsoft buried it