You are not wrong. The knife blade used was the Sgi and Microsoft Fahrenheit Project.

Microsoft mooched the shit out of SGI tech, while largely doing as little as possible to help the SGI NT computers succeed.

The big players were on IRIX. Win NT ports of stuff like Maya brought in cheap fast workstations. But, the tooling was crap and a lot of that Win NT share ended up on Linux, not back on IRIX.