The History of Microsoft - The Jeff Raikes Story: Part One
- Posted: Apr 06, 2010 at 11:12 PM
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Jeff Raikes left Apple in 1981 and became the visionary behind
Microsoft Office. This is Part One of the Jeff Raikes story for
The History of Microsoft series.
Jeff's entire story is told with great visuals; we dug through thousands of old tapes and photographs to bring you this compelling documentary, which takes an incredible look into the history of technology, what life was like at Apple in 1980, how Jeff taught himself to program on an Apple II, and his first assignment, which was working on Visicalc, the first electronic spreadsheet.
Jeff also discusses why he left Apple, and what it was like to work for Steve Jobs and then Steve Ballmer before coming to Microsoft at a time when there were only about 100 employees. He also tells great stories about Microsoft hiding the protype to the IBM personal computer and how Microsoft Office came to see the light of day.
Jeff's entire story is told with great visuals; we dug through thousands of old tapes and photographs to bring you this compelling documentary, which takes an incredible look into the history of technology, what life was like at Apple in 1980, how Jeff taught himself to program on an Apple II, and his first assignment, which was working on Visicalc, the first electronic spreadsheet.
Jeff also discusses why he left Apple, and what it was like to work for Steve Jobs and then Steve Ballmer before coming to Microsoft at a time when there were only about 100 employees. He also tells great stories about Microsoft hiding the protype to the IBM personal computer and how Microsoft Office came to see the light of day.
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I liked this history of MS Office and the history of Mr.Raikes. It is nice to see how products came to be. Do one on Mr.HejlsBerg. I am a programmer and a fan of .NET.
Good stuff. Lot of big names on this one. Agreed. Would love to see one on Anders.
Oh those cute old photos... fantastic
Please post part 2 ASAP
Hi CedricM Part Two is now posted.
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/History/The-History-of-Microsoft-The-Jeff-Raikes-Story-Part-Two/
And I love the idea on doing on an Mr. HejlsBerg. Thanks for the suggestions.
This is a great video! Thanks for this!
I'd love to watch also something about Dave Cutler or Charles Simonyi!
great history
This is the beginning of TECHNOLOGY Evolution.
Thanks Microsoft :)
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