036. Fancy Wizard and Red Squiggles

The idle loop is a devil’s playground. –Developers on the Word team

Office94 (still the working name for what would become Office 95) was primarily about working with Windows 95 and shipping on the same day. That led to the constraint of having a relatively small team, less than 20 software engineers across the product compared to almost 60 on just Word 6.0. We knew that simply working with the new operating system woul…