“The most classified program at Microsoft isn’t an operating
system. It isn’t a Web browser. It’s a 9-year-old boy named
Rupert.”
“… in the fall of 1997 to find a way to co-opt the garage
factor… Under the code name “Manchuria,” Gates gave the green
light to a program that would identify child prodigies and bring
them under the proprietary wing of the Redmond software giant.”