Almost nobody who even worked at Microsoft in 1996 still actually works at Microsoft. You are bringing up something said in one meeting from when floppy disks were still pretty important to the computing world.
I can't fathom a single statement from 1996 about a computer company that is still accurate today, and EEE falls into that category as well.
But with the latest news that MS is looking at buying GitHub demonstrates nothing has changed at MS.
Instead of helping and pushing the industry forward like Google does instead we have them hurting the industry. They buy GitHub and we will have a mess as FB, Google and the others that contribute to the greater good of the industry will have to go else where and we have a fragmentation mess. Google gave us map/reduce and K8s and so many incredible papers and a big one is VP8 and VP9 stopping the mpegla from trying to extort ridiculous license fees.
Or finding all the big security vulnerabilities like Shellshock, meltdown, Cloudbleed, Heartbleed Spectre and so many more and sharing and helping the entire industry.
I swear MS just does not want us to have nice things.
I can't fathom a single statement from 1996 about a computer company that is still accurate today, and EEE falls into that category as well.