{"id":33603,"date":"2005-10-26T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T09:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/10\/26\/pc-magazine-interviews-the-team-behind-windows-on-its-twentieth-birthday\/"},"modified":"2005-10-26T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T09:59:45","slug":"pc-magazine-interviews-the-team-behind-windows-on-its-twentieth-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051026-45\/?p=33603","title":{"rendered":"PC Magazine interviews &#8220;the team behind Windows&#8221; on its twentieth birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,1868435,00.asp\"> PC Magazine interviewed &#8220;the team behind Windows&#8221; in commemoration of Windows&#8217; twentieth birthday<\/a>. The article&#8217;s author talked with Bill Gates, Charles Simonyi, Jeff Raikes, Ray Ozzie (huh? He didn&#8217;t even work at Microsoft until April 2005! How could he have been part of &#8220;the team behind Windows&#8221;?), Jim Allchin, Brad Silverberg, David Cole, Yusuf Mehdi, Joe Belfiore, and Chris Jones. Ten managers. Apparently &#8220;the team behind Windows&#8221; doesn&#8217;t include programmers or testers. <\/p>\n<p> For some reason, the media often identify Hillel Cooperman (a Product Unit Manager) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-3513_22-5098860.html\"> as a programmer<\/a>, and whenever this happens, we always make a point to assign him a nasty bug to fix. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC Magazine interviewed &#8220;the team behind Windows&#8221; in commemoration of Windows&#8217; twentieth birthday. The article&#8217;s author talked with Bill Gates, Charles Simonyi, Jeff Raikes, Ray Ozzie (huh? He didn&#8217;t even work at Microsoft until April 2005! How could he have been part of &#8220;the team behind Windows&#8221;?), Jim Allchin, Brad Silverberg, David Cole, Yusuf Mehdi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-33603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>PC Magazine interviewed &#8220;the team behind Windows&#8221; in commemoration of Windows&#8217; twentieth birthday. The article&#8217;s author talked with Bill Gates, Charles Simonyi, Jeff Raikes, Ray Ozzie (huh? He didn&#8217;t even work at Microsoft until April 2005! How could he have been part of &#8220;the team behind Windows&#8221;?), Jim Allchin, Brad Silverberg, David Cole, Yusuf Mehdi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}