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- In search of intentional software
- Charles Simonyi's gave a keynote presentation today at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference in Cambridge, MA. Simonyi is best known as the father of Microsoft Word and Excel, a space cadet he recently went on a mission to the space station and founder of Intentional Software, which is focused on...
- Tags: Software, Intentional Software, Programming, Simonyi, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Open source, Microsoft models both wrong, simonyi said
- Open source, Microsoft models both wrong, Simonyi saidApple's and OrangesOpen source vs proprietary is less about how it is developed than it is about how it's distributed. Improvements in the process of development and testing can improve the quality of software regardless of how it's distributed, which means that...
- Tags: Software development, Tools & Techniques, Development tools, Apple Inc., software, Simonyi, FLOSS, open source, application development, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- Open source, Microsoft models both wrong, simonyi said
- Turns out open source and Microsoft have more in common than thought: both have it wrong, one prominent software developer claimed at MIT's Emerging Technologies conference. Charles Simonyi, the Hungarian-born developer of Microsoft Word who later became a pilot, cosmonaut and co-founder of Intentional Software, said...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Simonyi, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- simonyi ready for space tourist trek
- Simonyi ready for space tourist trekSimonyi, Martha, American ValuesExcellent Article! Think about Microsoft, the Microsoft Way, and the American Dream. It use to be that a US citizen dreamed of coming up with a great idea and then by hard work and following the law he could become as wealthy...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Simonyi, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Ex-Microsoft developer eyes trip to space
- Ex-Microsoft developer eyes trip to spaceOh Come On We Want Martha NewsSimonyi and Martha Stewart have long been rumored as more than friendshttp://www.tvsquad.com/2005/08/04/martha-stewart-gets-more-time/But lets get more to the point. No one at Microsoft will touch Simonyi's Word code and it has been so for several years. The new Office product...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Word processors, office product, Simonyi
- Discussion threads 2006-04-03
- Father of Word and Excel shoots for three-peat with Intentional Software
- Like the blockbuster movie producer or director who works behind the scenes but whose celebrity is often confined to Hollywood insiders, Dr. Charles Simonyi is a giant among giants here at PC Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz. If you strike up a conversation with the easily approachable, mild-mannered, Hungarian-born software...
- Tags: Intentional Software, Simonyi
- Blog posts 2005-03-22
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- Symantec intercepts Microsoft Word exploit
- Symantec intercepts Microsoft Word exploitAnd that's why undisclosed/secret patches are not kosherI have suggested many times before that, as is obviously apparent here, reverse engineering of the patch has occurred and this reverse engineering lead to an exploit. In this case, the change is known, the reason for the...
- Tags: Word processors, Patches, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Systems Affected, exploit, patch, Symantec Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- News to know: Microsoft Live Search; Google 2.0; Newton's return?
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Five take aways on Microsoft's new Live Search. Gallery right. Microsoft's new search guru talks strategy. Larry Dignan: Pondering Google 2.0: How will it get to $100 billion in revenue? Microsoft, Google square off in Washington....
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Live Search, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Stuart Cohen tackling the vertical application stack
- Whatever happened to Stuart Cohen, former head of the OSDL, now part of the Linux Foundation?He sent out a press release today, and it seems hes launched an effort called the Collaborative Software Initiative CSI. The initials are cute, but the intent is to build open...
- Tags: resellers, Linux Server OS, Linux Desktop OS, Linux, Implementations, General, Development, business models
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Charles simonyi: From Microsoft Word to outer space
- Charles Simonyi is on his way to the International Space Station aboard Expedition 15, which blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:31 GMT April 7. Along with other crew members, Charles is slated to rendezvous with the space station on April 9 at 19:15 GMT. He...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- Photos: simonyi's ride on a Russian rocket
- Back when, Charles Simonyi helped get Microsoft apps off the ground. Now he's booked on a Russian rocket lifting off Saturday.
- Tags: Russian Rocket, rocket, photograph, Microsoft Corp.
- Image galleries 2007-04-06
- Intentional programming and Dreaming in Code
- Worth reading: I have been following Charles Simonyis adventures in programming for many years. Charles is considered the father of Microsoft Word and the architect of Microsoft Office. He left Microsoft in 2002, after more than 20 years on the Redmond campus, to form Intentional Software, with the intention of...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, software, programming
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- Charles simonyi: Space cadet
- Charles Simonyi: Space cadetIntentional progressDan, it is great to see your continued interest in what we are doing at Intentional. I am incredibly enthusiastic about the progress our team is making. As for my space adventure, it is far in the future and takes very little of my...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Development tools, Microsoft Excel, Charles Simonyi, Intentional, Space Cadet, Microsoft Word, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2006-04-03
- Charles simonyi: Space cadet
- I've been following the work of Charles Simonyi since his early days Xerox Parc, Microsoft days Word and Excel and now Intentional Software days. In fact, I've been waiting for some news that Intentional, where Simonyi is President and CEO, has come up with the breakthrough technology to transform the...
- Tags: matter expert, subject matter, subject matter expert, programmer
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- For fans of Hungarian notation
- For programmers who have been curious about the origins and history of Hungarian notation, Charles Simonyi sheds ample light on the topic in a recent posting...
- Tags: Hungarian, Hungarian Notation
- Blog posts 2005-07-13
- Father of Word and Excel shoots for three-peat with Intentional Software
- Father of Word and Excel shoots for three-peat with Intentional SoftwareThe barrier between technologists and non-technologistsIn the negotiating dance between technologists and non-technologists, the eventual position degrades to "what I want" versus "what we're going to deliver". Although the non-technolgists are going to pay for and sometimes invest their...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Word processors, Microsoft Excel, Intentional Software, Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2005-03-24
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