[TUHS] Other POSIX Candidates?

[Charles H Sauer (he/him)]

Yes, MSFT and their 
https://microsoft.fandom.com/wiki/Professional_Developers_Conference 
were important, especially the 1993 Anaheim one that gave many of us our 
first real taste of "Chicago." That Brad Silverberg and Steve Ballmer 
paid special attention to people  like me didn't hurt. I suspect Brad 
deserves even more credit than he gets regarding supporting developers.

To keep things vaguely Unix related, that Anaheim conference was after 
Rick Rashid had moved to MSFT Research. He and I bumped into each other 
in a gift shop in Fantasyland, and discussed our career changes (I had 
just left Dell for VTEL).

Charlie

On 8/8/2024 3:46 AM, Marc Donner wrote:
> To summarize this discussion, if I may, the unifying driver was 
> developer friendliness, with all of its deeper implications, that drove 
> the process.
> 
> Reflecting on this theme, I note that MSFT focused on developers in the 
> golden age of Windows.  Some of it was investment in powerful IDEs but 
> an awful lot of it was stuff like their MVP program that created 
> community as well as offering participants some differentiation in their 
> competition for customers.
> 
> Looking back, the community-building aspects attracted me in the early days.
> 
> Marc
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