Comment Feed for Channel 9 - The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi (the Pioneer Behind Microsoft Word): Part One http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/a549/7dbed89d-ac06-461f-ab15-9dea00a6a549/SimonyiPart1_100_ch9.jpg Channel 9 - The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi (the Pioneer Behind Microsoft Word): Part One Meet software visionary, business executive, and space tourist Charles Simonyi. Simonyi pioneered the development of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. This documentary begins with Simonyi’s youth in Hungary in the 1960s, where he first learned to program on hand-me-down Soviet computers, and follows him on to Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he invented Bravo, the first WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editor. It also follows him into the exciting world of Microsoft in the 1980s. For more History of Microsoft Documentaries: The History of Microsoft by Year The History of Microsoft with Jeff Raikes The Visual Studio Documentary  en Tue, 21 May 2013 13:38:33 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 13:38:33 GMT Rev9 Re: The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi (the Pioneer Behind Microsoft Word): Part One Excellent!

Very interesting and inspiring.

I can't wait for the next part Smiley

posted by nmarcel

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634116673960000000 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:03:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634116673960000000 nmarcel Re: The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi (the Pioneer Behind Microsoft Word): Part One Very Very good video! Very good work looking for images to enhance the talk. It's very nice to look at. It's not just a podcast with a video of someone speaking. Very nice !

posted by CKurt

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634116716420000000 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:14:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634116716420000000 CKurt Re: The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi (the Pioneer Behind Microsoft Word): Part One Let me mention Charles Simonyi's father here /also named Charles Simonyi i.e. Karoly Simonyi in hungarian/ he was a prominent scientist and excellent teacher, and he wrote one of my favorite book: "A cultural history of Physics".

 

Available in english, german and in hungarian Smiley

 

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Karoly%20Simonyi

posted by Kazi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634117105680000000 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:02:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634117105680000000 Kazi Re: The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi (the Pioneer Behind Microsoft Word): Part One great stuff, cant wait for the next part

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634119443040000000 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:58:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634119443040000000 felix9 Re: The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi (the Pioneer Behind Microsoft Word): Part One Shouldn't the text overlays in this video use Hungarian notation? Smiley

 

Simonyi has long been a personal hero of mine. This video is outstanding! Love this series.

 

Brian

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634121582090000000 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:23:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TheOfficeBlog/The-History-of-Microsoft-with-Charles-Simonyi-The-Pioneer-Behind-Microsoft-Word-Part-One#c634121582090000000 briankel