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Behind Microsoft’s R&D Curtain

it’s more like staring at the curtain

Microsoft’s Rick Rashid is the chief propellerhead. When Bill Gates recruited him to launch the company’s R&D lab in 1991, Rashid was a Carneige Mellon computer science professor who had already distinguished himself by co-developing Alto Trek, one of the earliest networked computer games, and by directing the Mach Operating System Project — the kernel of which later went on to become part Apple’s OS X.

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