When I graduated from college, in 1991, I started working for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) on the Excel team. My title was program manager. I was supposed to come up with a new programming system so users could automate Excel. I sat down to write a spec, a huge document that grew to hundreds of detailed pages.
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techwriter007 replied ago:
Bill Gates was both a great business leader as well as software engineer.
dmitryx replied ago:
great software engineer? what did he do? personally?
scriptone replied ago:
apple fanboys, they never learn...
http://dmitryx.com ;)
dmitryx replied ago:
on this case, i would recite Linus Torvalds (see, has nothing to do with apple), i'm not sure about actual phrase, but the idea is correct:
"Why would i met him [B. Gates]? There is nothing he can tell me about programming, at which i'm the best, as well as there is nothing i cant tell him about business, at which he is [the best]."
fadzlan replied ago:
@dmitryx, you REALLY should read the article.
He IS that good. Can you give me a CEO of big software company that know the details of the application his company creates?
dmitryx replied ago:
Look, i'm not underestimating his input. Ofcourse i could say something like "yeah, and thats why you've got "that good" windows family." But i wont.
Just dont make him the God now. He is the Man. No arguee about that. But he is neither the God or epic hero of software development. In business - i'm sure he is. Has nothing to do with software development.
mcnaz replied ago:
Technically Bill is probably brilliant... but as a person? I'm not too sure. Looking at his dealings and leadership through the Netscape affair and very aggressive and underhand bundling deals in the 90s harmed the industry considerably.
Due to this, Microsoft has gained wide control over the industry which has lead to stagnation. Would IE 6 ever been updated if FF didn't come along?
dmitryx replied ago:
Besides all of that. What did Microsoft do?
Gave us "web standards", along with IE, so web industry was slowed?
Gave us DDE for IPC, which is 20 years old and is still alive thanks to Mircosoft?
Gave us viruses? Discredited open standards?
"The bulb has burned out in microsoft's HQ. What do they do?
They declare darkness a new standard."
This joke is like 15 years old. And is still true.
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