Neowin News Feed for: Ex-microsoft

Microsoft nearly fired engineer who added Windows Zip support, but it's a tricky situation

Sayan Sen — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:16:02 +0000

A former Microsoft veteran engineer who had worked on multiple major Windows components and features recently shared a story relating to Zip support. Today, more back story about it was shared. Read more...

Another ex-Windows head denounces Microsoft after it got slammed for "bad" performance

Sayan Sen — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:20:01 +0000

Microsoft recently got slammed by an ex-engineer for the "comically bad" performance of Windows 11. Following that, another former Windows guru has now criticized the company with a dose of sarcasm. Read more...

Ex-Microsoft veteran calls out Windows 11's "comically bad" performance, 'unfinished' state

Sayan Sen — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:22:01 +0000

One of the promises Microsoft made about Windows 11 was about the performance benefits it had. A former Microsoft engineer, however, has called Windows 11 out on its "comically bad" performance. Read more...

Ex-Microsoft workers do not have to return severance pay

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:22:46 +0000

Update: SeattlePI has confirmed that Microsoft will allow laid off employees to keep the extra paid severance Microsoft sent letters on February 18th to some of the 1,400 workers it laid off on January 22,... Read more...

Ex-Microsoft Security Strategist Joins Mozilla

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:35:27 +0000

Former Microsoft security strategist Window Snyder is joining Mozilla to lead the company's effort to protect its range of desktop applications from malicious hacker attacks. Snyder, who was responsible for security sign-off for Microsoft's Windows... Read more...

Ex-Microsoft employee sentenced to 7 months for software piracy

Sat, 12 Oct 2002 04:42:38 +0000

If you have been chatting on IRC warez channels with someone called Warlock and you haven't seen him for the last 4 months, you might have been chatting with a former Microsoft employee who has... Read more...

Ex-Microsoft engineer launches tool company

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:42:25 +0000

Renowned Microsoft Corp. engineer Charles Simonyi, who was behind the early development of Microsoft Word and other key applications, has left the company in order to start his own. Simonyi, along with Gregor... Read more...