Tag: Verity Stob
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Key Windows man leaves Redmond
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Andrew Orlowski
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One of the most important figures in Microsoft’s history, David Weise, is to leave Redmond after an illustrious career with the software giant. Weise was one of the developers responsible for a technical breakthrough upon which much of Microsoft’s success today is founded. In 1987 IBM and Microsoft were pouring vast resources into OS/2, the…
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Verity Stob – programming’s funniest memoir
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Andrew Orlowski
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As anyone who’s ever done it professionally knows, programming computers isn’t as glamorous as they make out in the movies. Take for example, Independence Day, where the hero lashes together a program in 30 minutes and conjures up a piece of code that saves the world. Have you ever seen anyone do in that real life?…