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Sunday, November 13, 2005 8:30 AM

Dave Luebbert on Channel 9

What was the Ray Gram Memorial Feature that shipped in Apple's System 7? Who invented the combo box (drop-down edit control)? What was the real downfall of WordPerfect? What was the project code name for Mac Word 5.0, and why? You'll find answers to these
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Monday, June 13, 2005 10:36 PM

Big Dave (Which One?)

Dave Winer provided this link to an article posted by Dave Luebbert. Dave Luebbert was the development manager for Mac Word 5.0, and was my first boss at Microsoft. Dave (L) is an incredible guy. He's a musician, and a very big fan of Jazz. He's been
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Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:03 AM

From Bravo to Word

From Bravo to Word Not long after the Wired article about Word 5.1 , someone sent me a link to this post on the Cult of Mac Blog . It mentions what I had thought to be a rather widely known fact: that most of the people who first worked on Word came from
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 1:50 PM

Anatomy of a Software Bug

Anatomy of a Software Bug Chris Mason is the person who hired me to work at Microsoft. By the time he hired me, he’d already spent a great deal of time looking into the issue of general software quality, and had written a memo (known as the “Zero
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Friday, April 30, 2004 6:57 PM

Where's Rick?

Where's Rick? Wow, leave blogging aside for a while, and the world just passes you by. The past few weeks have been so busy, that I haven’t even been able to read the blogs I follow. I fired up NetNewsWire this evening, and there were over 700 posts
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:08 AM

Mac Word 6.0

Mom always said, “The only good thing about beating your head against the wall is that it feels good when you stop.” Well, sorry Mom, but that’s not fully true. While you’re sitting on the couch buried beneath an ice pack, you
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