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NegativeLatency · 2024-01-21 14:04:05

Not Microsoft but an enjoyable account from that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

WisNorCan | karma 3744 | avg karma 17.33 · | 2019-04-25 17:11:02+00:00

Just over ten years after "Microsoft is dead": http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

jeroenhd | karma 24884 | avg karma 4.06 · | 2023-12-09 06:09:23

Here's a long writeup by someone who worked at Microsoft at the time: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/

Plough_Jogger | karma 319 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2015-06-12 17:03:44+00:00

First cached by the Internet Archive in Feb. 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050208021807/http://www.qbrund...

ryanjmo | karma 721 | avg karma 4.17 · | 2010-07-07 22:18:35+00:00

It looks like pg was right 3 years ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

mlex | karma 554 | avg karma 6.22 · | 2016-02-11 09:59:44

More articles like this in Raymond's blog, which is full of anecdotes from his time at Microsoft.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

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hhm | karma 4732 | avg karma 3.92 · | 2007-08-23 20:48:20

Yes, it's interesting. http://www.google.com/search?q=%22when+i+worked+at+microsoft...

pjmlp | karma 109153 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2023-08-07 08:19:06

Ah, if hadn't been for Microsoft this day back in 1997.

https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1688289036157243394

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tipsysquid | karma 72 | avg karma 1.95 · | 2019-04-14 15:42:32+00:00

I assume you mean this Raymond Chen of Microsoft[0]

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/author/oldnewthin...

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pcunite | karma 1124 | avg karma 1.37 · | 2016-12-28 21:47:00+00:00

Looks like it was David Luebbert.

https://storify.com/leonzandman/ex-microsoft-engineer-insigh...

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dawidw | karma 121 | avg karma 0.8 · | 2019-02-08 11:14:33+00:00

He was just very lucky that MS-DOS was chosen in one particular moment. More in the first comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=624887

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ErrantX | karma 14503 | avg karma 2.95 · | 2009-09-30 08:05:24+00:00

can you explain what happened to me: the only story I read is that he showed MS his patented tech in 1993 and they turned it down and re-implemented it themselves.

Im guessing that is in no way the full unbiased story from what your saying; got any good links?

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pjmlp | karma 109153 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2020-07-06 11:57:47+00:00

Since I cannot edit it any longer, here is one of the podcasts where he mentions it (first episode).

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech

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sarimkx | karma 974 | avg karma 6.32 · | 2024-03-22 21:18:34

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/03/19/mustafa-suleyman...

The real story here I think.

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justanotheratom | karma 392 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2011-08-16 00:58:37+00:00

There was a blog post but its is gone. Here is one describing that blog post:

http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-employee-details-how-wind...

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ingve | karma 199255 | avg karma 12.93 · | 2018-08-06 19:09:33+00:00

Raymond celebrated 15 years of blogging about Windows history and related topics recently (July 20)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180720-00/?p=...

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urig | karma 198 | avg karma 6.83 · | 2017-03-12 19:10:01+00:00

I pretty much scanned through the entire list of comments and i cant believe no one's mentioned www.hanselminutes.com. That is an excellent podcast and blog from Microsoft's Scott Hanselman who's an excellent interviewer and student ofn technology as well as a mentsch. Highly recommended.

___cs____ | karma 37 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2018-11-17 11:26:13+00:00

- Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better

- Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

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basugasubaku | karma 744 | avg karma 6.15 · | 2010-06-08 19:32:43

Raymond Chen tells a story that Notepad won some industry award in the late 90s, but no one at Microsoft could remember who the original author was: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/11/02/99159...

And follow-up post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/11/17/99233...

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billfor | karma 187 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2024-06-05 17:03:16

Page 4 now. 254 points and counting. Everything else on page 4 is at least a day older than this. Seems like a useful discussion.... There was an article on this (positive I think) in the WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/microsoft-ceo-satya-n...

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