Charles Simonyi leaves Microsoft

tibbetts writes "The New York Times reports (printable version) (Free blah di blah) that Charles Simonyi, the former chief architect at Microsoft and creator of Bravo, a text-editing program that later became Microsoft Word, has left the company to form his own startup. The focus of his new company is to "simplify programming by representing programs in ways other than in the text syntax of conventional programming languages," which is highly ironic in light of his infamous Hungarian Notation style of naming variables. Perhaps more amazingly, 'Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there.'"

Comments

Re:Grab him!

[earlytime]

no, lets not. we can do far better. ms code is so bloated and uneliable. why would we want a founding father MS's coding philosphy to work on something less bloated and more reliable?

Go Slashbots!

[Theodore Logan]

'Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there.'
He probably threathened to reveal some rather embarassing details about how Microsoft has abused it's market power if they didn't give it to him.

Yeah yeah, four legs good, two legs bad. I think you mistyped the URL, you really want to be here.

Why don't you Slashbots just shut the fuck up already? I'm not kidding, and I've got karma to burn. Everybody knows what you have to say even before the story is posted, and everybody knows you can't back up your outrageous claims.

And by the way, you spelled your nick wrong. Would you take a guy who in one sentence proposes a clearly agenda-driven and unverifiable hypothesis with zero arguments seriously if he can't even spell his own nick? Ask yourself that before posting the next time.

Re:Go Slashbots!

[Theodore Logan]

You write like a moron.

I must read like one too. What I suppose is due to my inferior command of the English language, I am uncapable of understanding the following words, all from your three-line post: suprised, afore, therom, indead, increadible, favoure. Strangely, no dictionary seems to recognize them either.

If you were talking about the content of my post, rather than the spelling of it, I can do nothing but agree here either. It is clear to me know, having reread my post alongside the one I was commenting on, that his was the more researched and thought-through. Also, it is clear that the original poster has a sense of irony that I distinctively lack.