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> company’s co-founder, Bill Gates, once ordered all of Microsoft engineers to stop writing new code for a month Source?
by renownedmedia 11y ago
> company’s co-founder, Bill Gates, once ordered all of Microsoft engineers to stop writing new code for a month
Source?
- grub5000 11y agoMan this is a well known and often commented fact, but god damn am I having trouble searching for sources and references on this one. Can anyone help out?
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- Garbage 11y agoThis is the closest reference I could find. http://www.cnet.com/news/gates-security-is-top-priority/ http://www.cnet.com/news/gates-security-is-top-priority/ I don't have Microsoft source though.
- mikestew 11y agoValentine actually dictated it, but it did actually happen. Brian's mail was something along the lines of, "I'm tired of reading about the latest security vulnerability in the NYT, so...". And I think it was six weeks, not a month. Source: me, who worked there (in VS, not Windows) at the time. EDIT: oh, yeah, forgot about the Gates mail. References are buried in this link: http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/story/#chapter-1 http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/story/#chapter-1 I stand by the B. Valentine version, just can't find a link.