And now, before I forget, A Completely Unsolicited Thread On The Ruinous Majesty Of 1990s-Era Microsoft, As Inferred and Represented In The Volume Names and Labels of Their CD-ROM Products 
By the mid-1990s, Microsoft is a straight-up monopoly, doing monopoly things and twirling their monopoly cane. They're crushing competitors (or near-competitors, or even anyone who resembles a future competitor), and maybe you're too young to know the term "Microsoft Million".
If you don't know the term, it stands for "They'll offer to buy you for a million dollars, and if you refuse, they'll spend a million dollars to destroy you." Trust me, this all happened and it was extremely effective and they got what they wanted all the time, until the trial.
In the trial, United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to be a monopoly, and while the case specifically stuck around Internet Explorer, the fact is that all up and down they owned the whole store and they squeezed and squeezed this for years.
I'd love to get ahead of current Microsoft employees who might see this thread and might be angry I said daddy is an asshole and they want to defend him on the playground, but OK, fine, you're all good now but you're built on a foundation of filth, get over it.
Anyway, CDs.
I'm imaging a LOT of CD-ROMs right now, and among them are piles and piles of the CD-ROM products Microsoft made throughout the 1990s. They did hundreds of different CDs, ESPECIALLY a set called the MSDN, or Microsoft Developer Network sets, which were for developers of code.
So, when I'm imaging hundreds of CDs, including this one, I let the software (IMGBURN) name the CD image after the volume the CD has set for itself. At the mastering level, you can set the volume name, a 32-character name representing what's on it.
Most places will give it an often descriptive name, or it'll be based off the company name plus something else. Maybe it's the part number. For example, you might have something called "Lotus Cam Network v1.0" and the volume name will be "CAMLOTUSNET10". Not perfect. But fine.
Ho, ho, not Microsoft! Here's some examples of the filenames in the SAME SETS OF 5-10 CDs. I.e. This is what each volume is named in a single product that has 5-10 CDs:
This should be a slam-dunk. Similarly-named CDs Disks 1-19, each with a different set of files for different functions, and names are all over the place. (Ignore the (2), (3) and so on, that's because two items can't have the same name, so a bunch are named WIN_NT or WINNT_DDK)
It gets worse. Since I need to match the CD images to the fronts of the CDs because those have some important metadata, I'm scanning the fronts of these CDs, so I'm seeing lots of them and how they're named. I draw attention to how they do unique part IDs.
Specifically, note how there's multiple "part" numbers all over the front of all of these. And how they shift, and what different ones mean.
Sometimes there's multiple part numbers on one CD. Disc 1 will be a part number many times different than Disc 2. There is no rhyme or reason to them. They're truly inscrutable.
It's not hard to infer from the volume names, and from the part numbers, as well as other related information, how truly undisciplined and chaotic the Microsoft juggernaut was in the 1990s, and how the CD-ROMs reflected it - no stability in volume names, no clear part numbers.
It wasn't for lack of smart people at Microsoft - it was for something a lot of people have backed up, which was that the system encouraged building aggressive fiefdoms within the organization and they would have to just settle for getting two operational parts NEAR each other.
It comes from a fat, happy monopoly, knowing it doesn't have to stress out THAT hard, knowing it can SORT of get it right, because your sales team has crushed any real competition - it's yours to lose, but you really have to work to lose. People will bend to your will.
To me, sitting in the volume names of these CD-ROMs, in the bizarre and inconsistent part numbers, and who knows what other eldritch technical horrors lie inside these plastic discs, that represents the dangers than monopoly presents.
That's all!
