Microsoft
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Say It Ain’t So
Flight Simulator is the biggest product casualty of the Microsoft layoffs? The layoffs are a sad day for all the people affected and a disappointing milestone for the company, but Flight Sim is an industry institution dating back three decades. It is painful to see as I was the Flight Simulator product manager early in…
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Nixon White House
We used to joke at Microsoft in the twilight of the 20th century at the height of the dot com bubble and amidst the DoJ proceedings that things had gotten “a little Nixon White House” in terms of tumult and the disconnect with the outside world. Evidently now the Nixon White House isn’t a…
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I, RoboChamp
One of the last things I helped kick off before I left Microsoft was a simulated robotics competition for developers called RoboChamps. The first season of RoboChamps is now underway. Because it runs in a simulated environment, you don’t need actual robotics hardware (which tends to be expensive for the really fun stuff). The first…