Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died

Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by wwwwewwww on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @03:21AM (#25428184)

I hope the name was a coincidence - consider that Microsoft uses city names for big project codenames.

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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by djmips on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:16AM (#25428824)

No it was not a coincidence as testified by Eric in his interview with the University of Washington business school.

He actually comes across a mix of interesting and unpleasant in this interview. It takes me back to the nineties when he and St. John were routinely pissing off people including myself.

But in the end people are complicated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZWUweIIEU

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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by mhh__ on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:32AM (#25429293)

Of all the things microsoft have done, using a vaguely insensitive name is not really that worrying to me.

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Re:Eric Engstrom, co-creator of DirectX, has died by iso947 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:00AM (#25428387)

Chicago I think was windows 95

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