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I’m an old-time software developer. To be more descriptive, when I say “old”, I mean “really, really old.” I’ve been programming since I was 15 years old, back in the pre-PC days. I wrote software for the original Altair 8800 and many other computers between then and now.

My first job out of college was at HP. I wrote office applications for the Touchscreen and Vectra PCs. I left HP to work at Microsoft where I spent the next 11 years. I first worked in the Systems group, on the Windows 1.0 SDK and on OS/2. Most of my time at the ’soft was in the Developer Tools group where I oversaw the development of many, many, products from MASM 4.1 to Visual C++ 2.0. My last 4 years at Microsoft were spent in Research where, with Linda Stone, I founded the Virtual Worlds Group.

I’m currently a founder/the CTO of Likewise Software. We make software that lets non-Windows systems authenticate against Microsoft Active Directory.

This blog is my personal blog site (now) focused on non-technical topics. If you want to read my technical posts, visit my company’s blog site.