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The History of Microsoft with Charles Simonyi (the Pioneer Behind Microsoft Word): Part One
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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
The History of Microsoft by Year
The History of Microsoft with Jeff Raikes
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The Discussion
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nmarcel Excellent!
Very interesting and inspiring.
I can't wait for the next part
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CKurt 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 !
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Kazi 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
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felix9 great stuff, cant wait for the next part
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briankel Shouldn't the text overlays in this video use Hungarian notation?
Simonyi has long been a personal hero of mine. This video is outstanding! Love this series.
Brian
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