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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by sriramk on Monday August 08, 2011 @12:48PM (#2860656)
Submitted this and found out I was beaten by less than a minute :)

Charlie is an extremely famous figure at MSFT for everything from COM, Windows Home Server to WP7.

The first time I came across him was when I was in high school and I knew him as the guy behind COM (sorry, Charlie :) ) who wrote the funny foreword to Don Box's book. It is surreal to think that I actually met him and got to know him. This is a guy who knows how to build stuff. Big loss for MSFT.

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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by CapitalistCartr on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:31PM (#2860814)
" . . . to WP7."

The first time I read this, I read " . . . to Word Perfect 7." Wait, what ? ! ? Maybe I'm getting old.

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Re:Windows Phone GM leaving Microsoft, with a rallying cry by flatline on Monday August 08, 2011 @02:00PM (#2860954)
Most US government agencies still use Word Perfect 10 or 11, so I have the same problem with the WP acronym.
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