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I've recently re-read Alan Coopers The inmates are running the asylum, which referenced in one chapter a journalistic (or even ethnographic?) book on the culture of a team in Microsoft in the early to mid 1990es, with the somewhat obscure title I Sing The Body Electronic written by Fred Moody. I could not resist going down that rabbit hole and ordered a used copy of this long out of print title, which arrived today. The first chapter ends with a remarkable sentence already:

In offices throughout Building 10 - headquaters of Microsoft Multimedia Publishing - developers [..] and designers [..] were laboring mightily to fulfill a vision that none of them could define, but in which all of them passionately believed.