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“C:\ONGRTLNS.W95” –Someone at Apple trying to be clever
Jul 25Comment 19Share
“Is that an OPP-stopper?” –HeikkiK, Office PM lead
Jul 23Comment 3Share
“What could be more magical than, all of a sudden, my email didn’t have typos and it was easy to add bullets?” –EdF, Word Development Manager
Jul 18Comment 6Share
The idle loop is a devil’s playground. –Developers on the Word team
Jul 11Comment 9Share
Overall performance is sluggish, tasks throughout suite applications are more complex to perform that in previous versions. --PC Week, Aug 21, 1995
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15 percent of the resources dedicated to Chicago or 85 percent of the resources on Office96. See what we did there.—Resource allocation for the paralle…
Jun 25Comment 7Share
“The best feature we have for competing with WordPerfect is Excel.” –PPathe (GM of Word)
Jun 20Comment 9Share
It’s better to avoid the dogs than select the stars. –Jim Lauderback on Suites of productivity apps (PC Week, 1993)
Jun 14Comment 11Share
"Not later than four months after entry of this Final Judgment, Microsoft shall submit to the Court and the Plaintiffs a proposed plan of divestiture."…
Jun 8Comment 6Share
Run towards the fire and make sure the team is making the same level of bet on you that you are capable of making on them. —My lessons in searching for…
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“I do not think I have met my expectations for this assignment, but based on the past six months it is clear my expectations for making you more effect…
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"Until six months ago Gates & Co. appeared lost in cyberspace" —BusinessWeek Magazine, July 15, 1996
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