How WMI Was Invented (Probably)

Microsoft manager: We need a proprietary protocol to replicate the functionality of SNMP. Microsoft engineer: Great idea! Everybody hates SNMP. Anything we come up with has to be better. Microsoft manager: Sure, but first we must replicate the many virtues of SNMP… Microsoft engineer: [Getting worried] Which are? Microsoft manager: Inscrutability, intractability, oh, and there […]